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Discussion Questions
- Have you ever experienced cyberbullying? Talk about it.
- What does it mean to be responsible online?
- Have you ever been mean to someone? Talk about it. How did you feel afterward?
- How can you help a friend who is being cyberbullied?
- Name someone in your life whom you trust and feel comfortable talking to.
Is It Cyberbullying?
Read each scenario and determine whether or not the situation is an example of cyberbullying. Discuss your answers.
- Shayla posts a picture of herself on social media. Another person comments, “You should turn the light on and retake because your picture is dark and it’s hard to see you.”
- Chase is playing a video game with an online player. When he loses the game, Chase begins cursing and calling the other player names, and he threatens to fight him.
- Three friends record themselves playing funny pranks on one another. They post the videos on their social media pages.
- Alyssa takes an unflattering picture of her big sister while she is sleeping then posts the picture without her sister’s permission.
- Kayla posts the negative hashtag #fatandugly about another girl on her social media page. Then she tells her friends to repost the negative message on their pages.
- Jayden makes a cooking video and posts it to his social media channel. A viewer comments, “Cooking is for girls! You must be gay!”
- Heaven posts a video of herself dancing. A viewer comments, “You are fat and ugly!”
- Gianna and her friends create a social media channel with videos of them making slime. A viewer likes one of their videos and subscribes to their channel. This same viewer posts the comment, “I don’t like foam slime because it’s too sticky.”
- Daria and her brother form a band and post a video of their first performance on social media. A viewer comments, “You guys messed up that song!”
- Madison posts pictures from her birthday party. One of her friends comments, “This party was so lame!”
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