How to deal with a cyberbully

As a victim of a cyberbully you share at least three things common with all other cyberbully victims.

1. You feel overwhelmed. The bullying is like a never ending barrage coming from every direction all the time. eMail, Text Messages, Phone Calls, Voice Mail, Twitter Tweets, Blogs, Facebook Pages, Myspace sites, the list of potential weapons is nearly endless. The use of technology truly brings bullying to a new level of nastiness.

2. You must make a decision. You must choose between action and inaction. If you choose inaction, the bullying will continue until you break, or you change your mind and take action. The bully could away of its own accord, which usually does not happen.

3. Even though it may seem like there is no hope and nothing you can do about that bullying weasel, There are actually a variety of simple things you can do to deal with your bully.

Suppose for example your bully’s favorite thing to do is send you evil nasty hateful text messages using his or her Sprint Cell Phone.

If you look at Sprint’s term of service, http://www.sprint.com/legal/agreement.html

you’ll notice some interesting things:

Obviously Sprint is not interested in having their customers use their network for illegal purposes. You can see where I am going with this.

All the websites and services that a cyberbully uses to spread filth and muck have similar terms of service. Each and every one of them has no interest what so ever in allowing their customers to use their networks to conduct illegal activities.

Just take a look. Here are a few terms of service pages:

• Twitter Terms of Service: http://help.twitter.com/entries/115246-safety-privacy-cyberbullying-and-cyberharassment

• Facebook Terms of Service: http://www.facebook.com/#!/terms.php?ref=pf

• MySpace Terms of Service: http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=misc.terms

• gMail Terms of Service: http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/terms/user_terms.html

• Yahoo Terms of Service: http://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/utos-173.html

• AT&T Terms of Service: http://digitalexpress.att.com/reg_terms.php

• Sprint Terms of Service: http://www.sprint.com/legal/agreement.html

You get the idea... So there you have one of the many things you can do about your cyberbully. I assure you, even though it may seem futile and hopeless, there are a number of devastating tactics available to you. There is really nothing stopping you from dealing out a steaming hot bowl of justice to your nemesis.

As I said before, you will have to make a decision to take action and solve your problem, or through inaction allow it to work itself out naturally. Unfortunately you get the victim’s end of the stick unless you decide to take action.

Taking action doesn’t mean just getting your bully’s phone turned off and hiding in the background to see what happens next. You’ll need a plan of action. You’ll need a series of steps put together by a bullying expert, designed to put an end to the bullying. 

Learn more about this Bully Solution.