Cyberbullying involves a minor tormenting, threatening, harassing, humiliating, or targeting another minor using the internet, digital technologies, or mobile phones. There are two types: direct attacks sending messages to the victim and cyberbullying by proxy which uses others to target the victim without or with their knowledge. Cyberbullying by proxy is more dangerous as it risks involving adults. Schools, parents, teachers, and organizations provide guidance to help prevent cyberbullying and educate children on appropriate online behavior. Risk factors for cyberbullying include family issues like abuse, school factors like lack of rules/oversight, and absence of limits which allow the behavior to occur more frequently. Cyberbullying causes victims deep insecurity,

1. Cyberbullying" is when a child, preteen or
teen is
tormented, threatened, harassed, humiliated
, embarrassed or otherwise targeted by
another child, preteen or teen using the
Internet, interactive and digital technologies
or mobile phones. It has to have a minor on
both sides, or at least have been instigated
by a minor against another minor. Once
adults become involved, it is plain and
simple cyber-harassment or cyberstalking.
Adult cyber-harassment or cyberstalking is
NEVER called cyberbullying.

2.  There are two kinds of
cyberbullying, direct attacks
(messages sent to your kids
directly) and cyberbullying
by proxy (using others to
help cyberbully the
victim, either with or
without the accomplice's
knowledge). Because
cyberbullying by proxy often
gets adults involved in the
harassment, it is much
more dangerous.

3.  Before the regulation of this subject in the school
codes, various institutions and organizations related to the
school world, have tried to prevent its misuse by children and
young people can give internet. For example, the site of the
Ministry of Education, www.internetsegura.cl, try to involve
parents in managing their children can give to these new
platforms, through information, providing guidance to avoid
behaviors such as cyberbullying. Thus, the participation of
teachers and parents are positioned as key players in
education "virtual" who can get our children today.

4.  At family : situations of absence of a
parent, divorce, violence, abuse or humiliation exerted by
parents and older siblings, perhaps because it is a child who
may live under constant pressure to succeed in their activities
or else is a very spoiled child .
 At school : The larger the school is no greater risk of
further bullying, especially if this factor is compounded by
the lack of physical control, security and
respect, humiliation, threats, exclusion among teachers and
students.
 Also the absence of limits and rules of coexistence that have
influenced this behavior to occur more frequently.

5.  Cyberbullying CAUSES VICTIM MORE INSECURIT Y,
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 also the personal humiliation of the victim is considerably
deeper and
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 CREATION OF EVIL CONSCIENCE and lacking in
empathy, especially in the case of a witness by the knowledge