Cyberbullying, persecution behavior

Abstract

Internet has become an indispensable tool among the minors. If you are not a member of a social net, if you don't use the messenger and you don’t share with your friends: pictures, worries, interests and leisure places can consider you an extinction specie. This is one of the great virtues of the net and some of their great dangers.

The crimes and offenses related with minors in Internet are multiplying in an exponential way and this generates severe repercussions for some youngsters, who every time more suffer the consequences of activities like grooming, sexting or ciberbullying. The youngsters and teenagers are very vulnerable in the face of this virtual reality and for this motive is necessary to help them and to orientate them in the use responsible for the new technologies. What is cyberbulling? Which role do the parents and the teachers play in the prevention of this phenomenon? Which legal actions mean this type of behavior?

The purpose of this article is to make arrive the importance that has the detection and the work of this phenomenon as well as to make strategies arrive at parents and teachers for its treatment.