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04 Aug 08
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more than half of young people with internet access would encounter online bullying as a victim, a perpetrator or a bystander.
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almost two thirds admitted they would not report it because they feared losing computer privileges.
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Most parents were aware of the problem, but did not know what to do about it.
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parents should talk to their children about what they did online so that children could tell them when something went wrong.
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Many young people were worried their parents would make the bullying worse by their reaction, he said.
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New Zealand children as young as 12 are willingly sending inappropriate images of themselves to adults contacted through the internet, a conference has been told.
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"They do not have the capacity to think through their actions thoughtfully ... they're impulsive," Prof Berson said.
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02 Aug 08
Anne BubnicMany young people keep quiet about online bullying for fear they will not be allowed to keep using computers, says a bullying expert. Dr Shaheen Shariff, who leads an international cyber-bullying project from McGill University in Montreal, said more than half of young people with internet access would encounter online bullying as a victim, a perpetrator or a bystander. But almost two thirds admitted they would not report it because they feared losing computer privileges. Most children thought there was nothing adults could do to help anyway, said Dr Shariff, who was in Queenstown this week to speak at a Netsafe online safety conference.
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Many young people keep quiet about online bullying for fear they will not be allowed to keep using computers, says a bullying expert.
Dr Shaheen Shariff, who leads an international cyber-bullying project from McGill University in Montreal, said more than half of young people with internet access would encounter online bullying as a victim, a perpetrator or a bystander.
But almost two thirds admitted they would not report it because they feared losing computer privileges.
Most children thought there was nothing adults could do to help anyway, said Dr Shariff, who was in Queenstown this week to speak at a Netsafe online safety conference.
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Most parents were aware of the problem, but did not know what to do about it.
Netsafe executive director Martin Cocker said the traditional response was to take away the technology to keep the child safe.
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Mr Cocker said parents should talk to their children about what they did online so that children could tell them when something went wrong. Many young people were worried their parents would make the bullying worse by their reaction, he said.
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ellow IYAC delegate Chris Osborne said banning social networking sites, where a lot of cyber-bullying takes place, would drive the problem underground. Many students could get around blocking filters, or use the sites from a home computer, and victims would be less likely to report bullying if they had broken the rules to get online.
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An internet safety conference in Queenstown this week discussing "complicit victims" was told of a 15-year-old girl who sent 300 photos of herself to an internet "boyfriend" she had never met.
He passed on the images to others.
"These children are very savvy about the technology ... but have no idea about the impact their actions could have on their lives when they are 25," NetSafe operations manager Lee Chisholm told the conference.
Children who had been sexually abused were most vulnerable to becoming "complicit victims".
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