My daughter wanted facebook a few years ago, and stupidly I made her an account, with this she then started getting messages from men, grown men. this made me sick to the stomach with pictures of themselves. I ended up taking it off her and gave the details of the men to the police.
The youtube incident was horrible for her to go through as she didn't even know that there was a video out there of her. It was a friend of hers that told her.
The school tried brushing it under the rug, then when the police came to school to question the boy's involved they then made it clear that they didn't stand for bullying and it was in their school policy.
so they took all the kids to a place in Sheffield to see the effects that online bullying can have.
Social media will never go away I understand that and wrapping her in cotton wool will not help as she will never get strong to deal with things in life.
I just think there should be more things on the web to protect kids from the horrible doing that they bring on each other.
Right now my kid is on her phone playing roadblocks, I can't stop her from playing games so we like to keep her in the same room as us so we can monitor what she is doing. it is not because we don't trust her, but more we don't trust others who bring these negative things into others lives.
now the schoolyard bullying is another issue we have with the same boy, he has had her by the throat and also tried pushing her down the stairs. he has also got her bag and chucked everything of hers across the room and kicked it around.
If I was 11 I would go into school and kick his little arse for him but I am a grown man.
Now when I say the school won't do anything well this is because the boys mum is a TA, and from what they have said to us in a meeting last Wednesday, is she is a really nice woman and they don't want to upset her.
They then had the audacity to say that it was my daughter's mental health. there is nothing wrong with my daughter. she is a little nervous yes but she has no mental health conditions she is a girl trying to grow up in this big world.
as you can see this is a big deal for us at the minute.