Indications that your child can be a victim of cyberbullying

September begins and with him, the 2021/2022 school year.The minors return to the face -to -face classes and with it, the joy of getting together with their classmates.Although for some children, this scenario rather than dreaming, becomes nightmare because of the bullying.One in four cases occurs through the Internet.An upward trend during the confinement of 2020, due to the mandatory virtual classes.Called cyberbullying, this type of harassment is increasing proportionally to age, according to a report by the ANAR Foundation (help children and adolescents at risk).

The 13 years are a key age in which up to 36.5% of bullying cases are cyberbullying.In addition, despite the fact that the percentage of victims of harass.The cyberbullye usually starts between 8 and 9 years, reveals a study by Save The Children and also, in most cases the stalker is a schoolmate.

Cyberbullying is a serious problem of social harassment that affects children and young people around the world, since it occurs through the Internet, accessing from a computer or a mobile device.The Inteco Observatory, dedicated to studying the relationship of people with the new information and communication technologies (ICT), defines this type of harassment as peer -harassment in the ICT environment, including insult, vexations and blackmail of children to otherschildren, or among adolescents.This definition is key not to confuse the term with another type of harassment such as grooming, which occurs between adults and minors.

This type of intimidation takes place through messaging applications, mails, social networks and even video games, has common features: inability to perceive the damage caused to the victim, anonymity after which self -sang and self -imposed roles self -imposed."You could say that cyberbullying has become a complement to the harass.Likewise, the most indicated reasons according to victims of harassment are by: the physicist, tastes and hobbies, revenge, good notes, purchasing power, skin color, religion, culture or sexual orientation.

Internet: from safe place to harassment

The ease of Internet access has changed society's behavior habits.While from the year 2000, on the Internet they began to create the first forums that served as a support and escape network for young people who suffered bullying in the classrooms, at present, harassment reaches these ways, leaving theminors cornered in front of their aggressors.

Virtual protection

Fighting face -to -face harassment is something that is being tried for years with awareness campaigns, training for teachers and classroom education, despite this, it continues to present some difficulty especially in terms of control."In cases of cyberbullying, tools such as Panda Dome Family, are the best ally for parents or guardians who suspect that the child is suffering cyberbullying or simply to add an extra protection and avoid it," says Hervé Lambert.

This parental control system has been conceived to avoid the risks on the Internet and to prevent dangerous situations in the real world.It has also been designed to raise awareness of the minors of the negative uses that they can give to their smartphones, while serving as a monitoring tool for parents.In this way, they obtain an accurate knowledge of what their children are doing at all times, which facilitates the task of detecting problematic situations or avoiding.

Family, which is part of Panda Dome, a 100% customizable omnichannel security product, allows parents to know the habits of use of their children with their mobile phones.Through their technology, they can know what applications they use and can even limit access, they can know which social networks access or how long they spend in each of them;obtaining alerts if they make an addictive use of their mobiles.

Alarm signals for parents or guardians

Panda Dome Family, together with education and going to mental health professionals if the child is being a victim of cyberbullycan develop in the long term, during your adult life, the minor.