Cyberbullying has now made it's way into our shores. Here's our take on the what, when, how.

1. CYBERBULLYING. IT’S HERE.

2. Indian parents are facing a fresh challenge from the world of multimedia in the form of cyberbullying thanks to anonymous apps on the smartphones of their children.

3. Deepali Shah (name changed on request),a once vivacious girl who had always been a good performer felt strange to her own family.

4. Her parents dug deeper only to find out that someone in her school had posted some degrading messages about her being plump, on a mobile chat room. The person who had posted the same couldn’t be traced as it was an anonymous application.

5. Children are flocking to the Internet in huge numbers in order to access the plethora of information it holds.
Children are flocking to the Internet in huge numbers in order to access the plethora of information it holds.
The world as we know it is evolving at a titanic rate, with the digital age having reached it’s zenith.
Someone took it a step further and created a fake profile on Facebook with her name, wrote nasty message on it and tagged Deepali and all her friends in it.

6. Children are flocking to the Internet in huge numbers in order to access the plethora of information it holds.
Children are flocking to the Internet in huge numbers in order to access the plethora of information it holds.
The world as we know it is evolving at a titanic rate, with the digital age having reached it’s zenith.
No wonder, Deepali turned into a joke overnight and withdrew. She is currently undergoing counseling to deal with this trauma.

7. THIS IS A SEVERE CASE, OF CYBERBULLYING.

8. With the world of internet open for one and all, today’s tech-savvy youngsters are seemingly free to use it to their convenience.

9. 1. EXPLORE THE DIGITAL TEEN SCENE.
While some use it constructively, taking guidance from their elders to share, connect and learn new things, there are many who are using it to malign others.
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10. 2. KNOW YOUR PARENTAL CONTROL OPTIONS.
The impressionable age that they are in is very vulnerable to all sorts of influences, good and bad. Helping the youngsters bring out the worst in them are mobile applications that do not require strict authentication making it easy for people to post things anonymously.
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11. 3. SET A DIGITAL LIMIT.
Cyberbullying is a very common and serious concern for parents in countries like USA. In India, it has been there ever since internet became popular but its ugly head is visible only now.
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12. 3. SET A DIGITAL LIMIT.
More and more parents are working and they can’t really avoid to do so since they provide a certain standard of living for their family.
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13. 3. SET A DIGITAL LIMIT.
With the parents slogging it out at work, their teenage kids are handed over a mobile, a smartphone at that, to keep in touch with the parents. Now what the kids are doing on their smartphones is not fully known to the parents.
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14. 3. SET A DIGITAL LIMIT.
The parents can only look at their phones or talk to them occasionally about using it judiciously. What applications they have installed on their phones is something they can’t be looking at all the time. Anonymous applications are mostly free and easy to download.
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15. 4. ADVISE YOUR CHILD ON THE IMPORTANCE OF PRIVACY.
A lot many of young people, boys and girls alike, in a bid to outsmart other kids or to prove themselves to be smarter than others may indulge in cyberbullying. The reasons could be many. Their recourse is the anonymous apps that are gaining popularity among the younger lot, something the parents may not be even aware of.

16. 4. ADVISE YOUR CHILD ON THE IMPORTANCE OF PRIVACY.
Parents ought to share with their kids what they can and cannot see online, what cyberbullying is, why should it not be indulged in. Encouraging them to ask questions and answering them to their satisfaction is a great way to bond with the kids.

17. 4. ADVISE YOUR CHILD ON THE IMPORTANCE OF PRIVACY.
They must be instructed to identify when they are being bullied online, told not to indulge in cyberbullying themselves and at the same time not respond to a bully and thereby discourage the latter.

18. Encouraging them to adopt a healthy lifestyle with healthy habits and pursuits they can creatively divert their child’s attention to positive things in life leaving no leeway for the negative forces to creep in.
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