In Denver, school officials found out the hard way the lengths to which students will go to impersonate "official" Facebook pages of the Denver Public Schools (DPS), creating unsupervised places for teens to cyberbully each other.
These "fake Facebook profiles" are in fact, Imposter Profiles, the term for one of the six cyberbullying tactics we discuss in Cyberslammed.
An Imposter Profile is set up to deliberately confuse and mislead the public to believe it is owned by someone else (usually the target of cyberbullying).
In this case, the teens set up the Imposter Profile to resemble an official DPS page in order to cyberbully unsuspecting students. Once the real DPS got wind of it, however, they shut it down.
Has your teen been a victim of the Imposter Profile tactic? Buy our book online to determine how to Understand, Prevent, Combat & Transform this tactic.
Source: The Denver Channel.
These "fake Facebook profiles" are in fact, Imposter Profiles, the term for one of the six cyberbullying tactics we discuss in Cyberslammed.
An Imposter Profile is set up to deliberately confuse and mislead the public to believe it is owned by someone else (usually the target of cyberbullying).
In this case, the teens set up the Imposter Profile to resemble an official DPS page in order to cyberbully unsuspecting students. Once the real DPS got wind of it, however, they shut it down.
Has your teen been a victim of the Imposter Profile tactic? Buy our book online to determine how to Understand, Prevent, Combat & Transform this tactic.
Source: The Denver Channel.
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