Know The Characteristics Of Cyber ​​bullying

By Nurdiyanah R When society is exposed to the development of social media networks that provide a variety of information such as the TikTok application (picture), we as users are also not exempt from its positive and negative implications.

The fact is, the use of TikTok often ends up with negative implications if it is not well controlled leading to the issue of cybercrime "The TikTok application has become the latest trend, including among people in our country regardless of age.

What needs to be emphasized is how safe this application is for children since it has no boundaries and anyone is free to see what is loaded in the application "Therefore, to ensure that usage is not misused or involved in cyber crime issues, then the parents or guardians need to constantly monitor all the movements of their children," stressed Cyber ​​Security Marketing and Awareness Officer (CSB), Dayang Siti Nor Izuana binti Ayob when met by the writer, recently.

Touching on the steps that can be taken in an effort to ensure that the application is safe to use for the whole family is to always change the account to private by pressing the profile and the three line symbol at the top then press privacy In addition, users must also have strong and strong passwords.

"It is so important to make your account private because it is able to control all personal content, one example is not reposting (repost) by people you don't know Likewise, users need to set up filters for inappropriate comments to better utilize their use towards positive values.

"In the meantime, parents or guardians can also monitor their children's activities when using the application through setting the family pairing method available in the privacy section," he added When asked about the characteristics of cyber bullying in the use of social media networks including the application, Dayang Siti Nor Izuana stated that several types of cyber bullying can be categorized into aspects of harassment, denigration, rowdy seeking, impersonation, rumors and deception and stalking.

He further explained that harassment refers to the act of someone who repeatedly sends offensive, rude and insulting messages to targeted users While denigration is someone who distributes information about another person in an insulting and untrue manner by posting it on a web page, or sending it to another person via email or instant message, or in terms of posting or sending a photo of a person that has been digitally modified .

Cari rowdy refers to fighting online using electronic messages with abusive language Similarly, impersonation occurs when a person hacks into an email or social media network account using a targeted person's online identity for the purpose of sending or posting offensive or embarrassing material.

While rumors and lies mean that someone has shared a secret or information that embarrasses someone, or tricking someone into revealing a secret or embarrassing information by sending it to another person The act of repeatedly sending messages that include threats of harm, are intimidating, or engage in other online activities that make a person fear for their safety is categorized as cyber stalking.

He said, if a cybercrime issue such as cyberbullying occurs, then one of the steps we need to take as users is not to respond to the bully and save the screenshots as evidence Then report the bully's profile to the social media section used and block the statement.

Followed by reporting the issue to the police "Talking about the impact of using TikTok, it is subject to each individual.

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