Purposefully mean behavior that is usually repeated. The person being targeted often has a hard time defending themselves.
What is Bullying?
A witness to harassment or bullying who recognizes the situation but chooses not to intervene
What is a Bystander?
To increase or widen participation or impact
What is Amplify?
A way to end all interaction with another person online, preventing them from accessing your profile, sending you messages, seeing your posts, etc., without notifying them (not always ideal in bullying situations where the target wants to know what the aggressor is saying or when the bullying has stopped)
What is Block?
A more general term than bullying that can take many forms – pestering, annoying, intimidating, humiliating, etc. – and can happen online too
What is Harassment?
A witness to harassment or bullying who supports the target privately or publicly, sometimes including trying to stop and/or report the incident they witnessed
What is an Upstander?
An unnamed or unknown person – someone online whose name or identity you don’t know
What is anonymous?
Less final than blocking, muting is a way to stop seeing another person’s posts, comments, etc., in your social media feed when that communication gets annoying – without notifying that person or being muted from their feed (not helpful in bullying)
What is Mute?
A form of harassment or bullying used online and offline; often referred to as “social exclusion”
What is Exclusion?
The person doing the harassing or bullying; though sometimes called the “bully,” bullying prevention experts advise never to label people as such.
What is an Aggressor?
Text that goes with a picture and provides information about what’s in the photo
What is a Caption?
Choose to help the person who is the target.
What is Be an Upstander?
Posting or commenting online in a way that is deliberately cruel, offensive, or provocative
What is Trolling?
A person who hides behind an often fake persona in order to anonymously post nasty, cruel, and offensive comments and material
What is a troll (or internet troll)?
Additional information around the photo
or other information that helps us understand better what we’re seeing. Context can include information like the place where the photo was taken, the time
a text was sent, the situation the sender was in, etc.
What is Context?
Choose to do nothing, or even choose to support the aggressor.
What is Be a Bystander?
Bullying that happens online or through using digital devices
What is Cyberbullying?
The person being bullied or victimized
What is the Target?
An argument or disagreement that isn’t necessarily repeated
What is Conflict?
Using a social media service’s online tools or system to report harassment, bullying, threats, and other harmful content that typically violates the service’s terms of service or community standards
What is Report Abuse?