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0:08the internet can be the best thing in
0:11the world it allows you to virtually
0:14visit any Museum that you want to access
0:17any MIT or IV league university lecture
0:20that you want often for free it allows
0:24you to Showcase your Aesthetics and the
0:26music you create it allows you to
0:28connect with all of your friends abroad
0:31it allows you to be the rockar of the
0:34gaming World it allows you to create
0:36also really good playlist over Chad GPT
0:39or with the little help of Chad
0:42GPT everything of this and more is just
0:45at the tip of your fingertips every
0:52day the internet can be the worst thing
0:54in the
0:55world is the space of invisible violence
0:59cyber bullying online violence and
1:02digital harassment it's the space of
1:04doxing where anybody can showcase your
1:07location where you live all of your
1:09private data and expose them for
1:11everybody to see it is the space of
1:14online scammers of fishing of dark web
1:18it is the space of violence that never
1:21sleeps it is the space where somebody
1:24can take your image and With a Little
1:26Help of artificial intelligence twist it
1:29into something that it's completely
1:32not between these two realities there
1:35lies a real human genuine relationship
1:39with the
1:41internet your relationship or your
1:44experience what do we know about youth
1:47experience online
1:49today according to UNICEF that did this
1:52research back in 2019 with 1 million
1:55young people globally it was found that
1:5870%
2:00of young people around the world has
2:03been through some sort of cyber bullying
2:06and digital
2:07harassment there's no true consensus on
2:10what cyber bullying really is but this
2:13is one of the most quoted depictions of
2:16cyber bullying it states that it's an
2:19aggressive intentional act carried out
2:22by a group or individual using
2:24electronic forms of contact repeatedly
2:27and over time against a person that
2:30cannot defend
2:35themselves to tell you the truth I don't
2:38even like the word cyber bullying one of
2:40my depictions that I find uh very
2:44accurate was by 12-year-old girl I met
2:47in Bosnia
2:48heroina and she
2:50stated for her cyber bullying was the
2:54feeling of unrest where she didn't feel
2:57a single limb of her body when your
3:00stomach goes into your chest and you're
3:02completely terrified to look at your
3:04phone because you don't know what what
3:06can you expect
3:09there according to research done in
3:122018 young people who experience cyber
3:14bullying are as greater risk that those
3:17who don't for both self harm and
3:20suicidal
3:22behaviors additionally it has been found
3:25that cyber victims have more problems in
3:28schools with peers
3:30with substance abuse with anxiety stress
3:34loneliness and
3:35depression let me tell you how one viral
3:38video can change your entire life and
3:41I'm going to tell you a story about a
3:44boy and a girl from Bosnia
3:46herina one decade ago there was a girl
3:49who went to school trip together with
3:52her classmates in the midst of this
3:54activity their bus broke down uh there
3:57was a local news news out outlet that
4:00came to this H to this bus and they were
4:04looking for a statement so she went
4:07there in front of the microphone she was
4:09obviously very emotionally distressed
4:12she had a thick accent and her voice was
4:15shaky this particular video went viral
4:19for years and it's still online today
4:22she became a national mockery Meme and
4:26some people think it's funny even today
4:31luckily this girl
4:36survived last year there was a
4:3822-year-old boy who went to a local gas
4:41station to apply for his first
4:45job so when he went there and he was
4:47filling out his application he was
4:50mocked and filmed during this
4:53process by the time he came home this
4:56particular video of him was already
4:58viral on Tik Tok and
5:01YouTube out of immense humiliation and
5:04fear that he felt he committed
5:11suicide he's not the only one in Bosnia
5:14heroina or globally to do
5:18so when I was working with cyber victims
5:21a few years back once when I went with
5:23all of these screenshots and stories and
5:25reports to local authorities they said
5:29we have no means to protect you we
5:30cannot do
5:32anything and it's true because Bosnia
5:35and heroina still doesn't have law that
5:38can protect you against cyber bullying
5:40there's no legislation to protect
5:43you so how do we fight something so
5:48intangible during my work over the
5:51period of 5 years with young people from
5:53Bosnia heroina and region and having
5:55these conversations on cyber bullying
5:58there are three simple princi principles
5:59that you can apply to yourself and your
6:01friends
6:02today that can potentially help save
6:05your mind and maybe someone's
6:11life when it comes to cyber bullying be
6:14as loud as you
6:16can be as loud as lions Roar if you are
6:21being Cyber Bullied or your friends or
6:23anyone you know share it with everyone
6:26you know whether it's your parents adop
6:30professors school counselors even take
6:32it to social media if you have to
6:35because your voice is very powerful and
6:37it's very important for you not to be a
6:42bystander one of the cases I really
6:44enjoyed uh is uh of young people in
6:48conit who had their youth uh amateur
6:52theater and what they did back in 2014
6:55they created a play that's called
6:57virtual is real
7:00they collected all of these messages
7:03that they received in their schools like
7:05from their bullies from their cyber
7:07bullies and they put everything in a
7:10show and displayed it for everybody to
7:13see when it comes to cyber bullying
7:15expose it creatively loudly and
7:20persistently one of the most powerful
7:23things is to have absolute control over
7:26your
7:27information this is why it's important
7:29to be aware of your digital footsteps
7:31and your actions when I say practice
7:34conscious posting I mean think about all
7:38of the words and images and any content
7:41that you share
7:44online think about the last image that
7:46you send to your boyfriend or your
7:48girlfriend or somebody you
7:50like would it be absolutely okay with
7:54you if this particular image was to be
7:57out somewhere online for ever for
7:59everybody to
8:01see if no think about it next time
8:05you're sending that
8:07content there's a great um nemonic image
8:10by Melissa pelovski done in 2015 where
8:13she says think before you post but in a
8:17sense when you access your social media
8:19accounts think is a true helpful
8:24inspiring necessary or
8:27kind you don't always always have to be
8:29super kind I know that I get angry too
8:32when I'm sometimes behind my keyboard
8:34This is why it's important for us to
8:36think before we actually ready to
8:39comment on
8:43something I know this is the least
8:45unpopular one take a break from social
8:48media and the internet shocking
8:50no when I say take a break from social
8:53media I don't mean in a sense that you
8:55completely isolate yourself from the
8:58world um this is the time for you to
9:02find a healthy balance between digital
9:04consumption and all of your usage of of
9:07the internet and social media because
9:09it's very important for you to to to be
9:12aware of the fact that you are the one
9:14who is controlling technology and not
9:17the other way around According to some
9:19research the bigger the our digital
9:22consumption is um there's a chance of us
9:26always comparing ourselves with other
9:28people
9:29are we good enough are we strong enough
9:32are we smart enough are we beautiful
9:36enough this is why it's important for
9:38you to work on your mental health and
9:41your body recharge your mental
9:46stamina and take control of digital
9:50consumption to sum up all points in main
9:53three be as vocal as possible when
9:56confronting cyber bullying always be an
9:59ally never be a
10:01bystander because fear should not let
10:04you should not stop you from exposing
10:06cyber bullying and protecting each
10:09other two digital actions leave Lasting
10:14Impressions and as we heard minute
10:18before at times they can be fatal
10:20ones and number three take control over
10:24your narrative take time to pause and
10:27recharge because only only when you're
10:29mentally strong enough and physically
10:32strong enough can you really face all of
10:34your challenges on daily basis with
10:37strength and
10:39resilience thank
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