I. Introduction
A. [Capture reader’s interest]
B. [Build case through logic]
C. [Topic sentence/thesis statement]
II. What Is Cyber Bullying?
A. Cyber Bulling Is the use of electronic communication to bully a person, typically by sending messages of an intimidating or threatening nature.
1. Pause Before You Post – Teens are the primary producers of web content and continue to publish their ideas experiences and stories on blogs or personal profile pages. They publish the pictures they take, the music, videos they produce and many other forms that let them have expression. Teens must be aware of the personal risk they are publishing.
B. What Can Happen?
1. Cyberbullying may rise to the level of a misdemeanor cyber harassment charge, or if the child is young enough may result in the charge of juvenile delinquency. Most of the time the cyberbullying does not go that far, although parents often try and pursue criminal charges. It typically can result in a child losing their ISP or IM accounts as a terms of service violation.
C. How Is Cyber Bullying Different than Other forms Of Bullying?
1. New technologies have not only created new outlets for bullying, they have changed the face of it completely because cyberbullying:
2. •Can take place 24/7 - not just during school hours
3. •Invades your home and personal space as well as the school environment
4. •Can be done quickly and on a large scale, because of the speed and reach of email, mobiles and Web sites
5. •Can be perceived as anonymous (the bully can set up a fake email address or use someone else's mobile, for example)
III. What Are The Effects Of Cyber Bullying?
A. Statistics.
D. 1. •90% of social media-using teens who have witnessed online cruelty say they have ignored mean behavior on social media; 35% have done this frequently (PEW Internet Research Center, FOSI, Cable in the Classroom, 2011) ◦80% say they have defended the victim; 25% have done so frequently
E. ◦79% have