As technology evolves, so are the different ways to bully another person . This blog post will discuss the different forms of cyber bullying in the Philippines
This is also known as group bullying and cyber mob. Group bullying happens, at least from Philippine context, in response to (1) actual abuse or injustice- from the experience of the “master slapper” and “abusadong professor“), (2) when a person believes in an unpopular opinion, a former beauty queen had a hands on experience on this type (3) when netizens reacted rightfully or wrongfully to a (a) troll and (b) “perceived” abusive behavior- from the experience of “amalayer” and “I was not informed”.
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Impersonating
This is the creation of false account or the hacking of the original account of the victim, and the perpetuator will use this to humiliate and attack the victim.
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Flaming
This is the use of angry, vulgar and violent words against the victim
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Text Bullying
This is the old school of cyberbullying but the second commonly used platform after Facebook. This form use the basic CP functions such as SMS or MMS to harass the victim
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Creative Bullying
This form use creative arts to inflict damage to the victim, these are the use of “fan pages” as “hate pages”, photoshopped images, e posters and videos.
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Outing (social engineering)
This form is meant to manipulate the victim to willingly divulge an embarrassing information or do something embarrassing. These will now be used to harass and embarrass the victim
This is a special form of cyber bullying because the victims are teachers and perpetrators are student. The students use the same tactic as outing, setting up the teacher to “snap” and record the whole thing to make fun of their teachers on social media.
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I’m a victim of another type that has been engineered by many professionals with vast resources and unrestricted ethics. In an effort to force my sobriety, at a moment after seeding mental stressors they dropped on me a Hiroshima of attacks. Its scope and depth leave no doubt that a massive group had been gang stalking me for a very long time before hand. I’d had prior incidents but an invisible to me fb hate page, and every station on tv, radio, my phone all directed to specifically evoke my attention with subtle digs that I couldn’t miss. Just as this was all erupting people began talking in a very indirect manner. Avoiding my inquiries, as if acting in some real life stage play. The attack only escalated to the extreme I was going to jam a French knife through my neck. I somehow didn’t and was put I.to lockdown at psych ward for a week while everything was covered up at home. I wasn’t and still haven’t recovered. For at least 6 months after I was highly suicidal and these attacks persisted with no escape other than solitude but even then I’m certain of govt level surveilance. My drug use has gone up since. Its how I survive this humiliation I fear for my safety. There’s a tv show or radio show I do.t know exactly but billions of dollars are involved. Ppl still refuse to speak to me in non metaphor leaving me unsure, I’m harrased out of jobs, nearly homeless now. Still suicidal, angry , alone, betrayed. Abused by me own mother & stepfather on my birthdah so I’d be mentally hindered a plot to ruin me which worked I quit my job b/c paranoia of being stuck in isolation with strangers. I’m followed by traffic in not busy places at not busy times of day. Engines always rev in front of my house, horns blast, car stereos thumping. Ppl snapping my pic in public selling cctv footage. Hacking my phone, stealing from an online casino acct $2800 after I won it. Then no more winning bets beyond statistic possibility.
This is great sonnie! I hate being bullied but sometimes we can’t avoid it specially now a days because of the mass media. You can easily create an account and bully someone and those who don’t think twice will believe what they see in front of them. *sigh
Cyberbullying in every form is terrible! It’s good that you make people more aware of the different forms of cyberbullying. It happens so often. Here in the Netherlands, there’s this TV program about this subject. The host of the show goes on a search to find the bullier. And then confronts this person with what he or she did and the consequences. It’s very interesting. But shocking as well, so hear what happens online.
I’ve been a victim of impersonating as well. Someone used my photo and created an account on Instagram and Sulit (now, OLX) and tried to sell puppies. It may be under a different name but they used my photo. It was so crazy. I wasn’t expecting that to happen. I, together with a few friends, reported those accounts and I think it was put down already. I hope people would just stop.
A very informative share! I read about so many cases these days, where some people have been bullying, gaining some sort of personal interest! It’s a really sad technical world around us. With all the pros, come a wagon load of cons!