Nearly 42% of kids have been bullied online and almost one in four have had it happen more than once.

Facebook Facts

There are more than 500 million active users.50% of users log on to Facebook every dayThe average user has 130 friends.People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook.

Activity on Facebook

There are over 900 million pages, groups, events and community pages. The average user is connected to 80 community pages, groups and events More than 30 billion web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc. is shared each month.

When you first make a Facebook account, the Privacy settings are set to Default.

To change these setting click the Account tab, and select Privacy Settings.

As you can see there are many different options; Everyone, Friends of Friends, Friends Only, Recommended and Custom

Click Customize Settings Button

Once on your Customize Settings page you can see all of the different options

As you can see I have most of my “Things I share” settings set to “Friends Only”.

When you finish setting your preferences you can click the “Preview My Profile” button on the top right hand corner.

On your Xbox 360 controller you will want to press the Xbox button.

This will bring you to the Xbox Dashboard

From here go to your right to “Profile”.

Now you will want to go to “Family Settings” and select it.

Turn on “Console Safety”

There are many different options for keeping safe.

From your Playstation menu you will want to go to the “Settings” tab, then scroll down to you see “Security Settings”

Once here you will now want to select it.

Once here select BD “Parental Controls”. BD stands for Blu-Ray disc’s, which are movies.

Now simply turn On Restrictions

From this page you can now select an age for whom you are protecting.

Once you have your BD parental controls set you can now skip back a page and select “Parental Control” for game restrictions.

Level 1 - 4 : Rated E for Everyone

Level 5 - 8 : Rated T for Teen

Level 9 - 11: Rated M For Mature

Off : No Parental Controls, users can play any games.

Once finished you can now exit all parental controls.

Cyber bullying has increased in recent years. In a national survey of 10-17 year olds, twice as many children indicated they had been victims and perpetrators.

About 58% of kids admit someone has said mean or hurtful things to them online. Five out of ten say it has happened more than once.

You can help stop Cyberbullying!

By: Cody Fife