Teens and Social Media Bullying – Why Find Help App is So Important

Danny thank you for sharing. It is encouraging to see a way to connect to Facebook ro report abuses, very important for teens and in an important space for them. Younger and younger children are beginning to also use social media. They may not tell their parents but feel comfort in the anonymity of an app.

Thanks for sharing. I've got two teens that have FB accounts and on different occasions they've been bullied. Thankfully they tell me before it goes to far and we've been able to stop it on each occasion. Unfortunately, I have a friend who's child has been the victim of bullies quite a bit this year, both online and off. I've shared this link with my network!

Thanks for sharing that Danny, I had never heard of this app. I think it's an absolutely great idea, a breath of fresh air when so, so much tragedy has been swirling around the world of social media for cyber bullying. It's an awful by product of a lot social interactions moving online and a terrible thing to hear about. Ideas like these make me feel much better about our younger generations using social media as well as the people we have in the business who truly care about the children. Kudos, SafetyWeb.

Thanks so much for posting this Danny. Kids are so fragile in their teens and they've got to have something like this to empower them when they can't/won't talk to their parents. Also a good reminder to parents to watch what their kids are doing online and teach them how to treat others with respect no matter what their age or situation.

This is such an important topic. My daughter has had a real rough year with bullies and it pains me to so many reports on every level. I really appreciate this post so much Danny and I have shared with my network...lots of parents there. We will see how this can curb these problems in the future.

As a parent of a 15 year old daughter who is very active on Facebook, I can tell you first hand cyber bullying is a huge problem. It amazes me how little parents supervise their kids online activities. That is it's own problem, but giving these kids resources to handle situations on their own I think empowers them and in a way will let many of those who do cyber bully., know that it is very wrong
Thank you for sharing this Danny.

This is such a and great and important app - so much so that I almost feel like it should be a default. Tweeting this right now!

Danny, I commend you for posting this info on your blog. Not only kids, but adults are using the Internet to bully others and we need Facebook, Twitter, etc. to step up and help combat this problem that is is getting worse as time goes on. Thanks again!

Thanks for this post, Danny. As someone who experienced the rise of social networks, I feel like I was involved in them before bullying was an issue. Now that I have heard of so many instances of it happening, it is good to hear both people like you exposing it and companies like Facebook doing something about it. It is clear that social networks evolve many things, including the bad stuff like bullying. Hopefully we continue to take measures to fight it and teach people the suffering it can cause.

Danny:

Thanks for sharing this. Recently, my 16 year-old nephew was the victim of bullying. A girl he knew in elementary school reached out to him on Facebook. They friended each other and started a conversation. Then she invited him to meet her in a local park. He went and found her with about six other girls. Then eight guys arrived to ambush him and start a fight. He stood his ground and refused to fight but they took his cell phone and hat. He left and when to a nearby house to call his parents. Later he found out that one of the girls had videotaped the entire incident. It was a setup and the group was planning to post the fight on YouTube.And, this was not the first time they had done this.

I told my sister to report the kids to Facebook. She wasn't sure where to start. Now that you've shared this, we know where to at least start.

Thanks.