How To Fight The Negativity Of Cyberbullying - Negotiation Tip of the Week
"He constantly picked on me by posting untruthful things that he said I engaged in. Then, he made unflattering comments about my mother. I found that of particular distaste."You may have thought the words above stemmed from two friends in their teens. The statement did come from two friends, but they were CEOs of major corporations. They were discussing the cyberbullying effects targeted against one of the CEOs in cyberspace.
Anyone can come under attack in cyberspace. The reasons for such don't have to be valid. Do you know how to fight the negativity of cyberbullying? Continue reading this article to gather a few tips that you can use to combat a cyberbully.
Prevention:
Keep your guard up.
Be on the alert for those that might attack you. Some will do so because of the assets they perceive you to have. They may also do so because of the industry your business is in, your ethnicity and/or gender. Some people may just be mentally challenged, which causes them to seek out a target to bully.
None of this is to say that you should become paranoid. It simply means that you should be alert about how and why someone might attack you in cyberspace.
Turn yourself into a small target.
Know that some people engage in cyberbullying for pleasure. Others may do so as the prelude to extortion; extortion can be in the form of gaining leverage to achieve a goal, especially when negotiating.
To thwart a bully's efforts, turn yourself into a small target. Don't flaunt your assets in the manner that would attract and invite a possible attack. If you become a victim, keep a prepared set of documents that show you may not have what the bully wants. To do this, you must know what his ultimate goal is. You don't want him to turn your perceived lack of assets against you and use that to enhance his position. Remember, it's harder to hit a small target, but you must know what to morph that target into before it can be effective.
Fighting back:
Why me?
Bullies tend to target those persons or entities that they sense as being vulnerable. So, project strength when responding to the bully. You can do this by having others come to your defense and responding on your behalf. You can also respond by hitting the bully where he's most vulnerable; it's obvious that you'll have to know his vulnerabilities to do this, which may require research.
I used the above strategy in an online forum in which someone attempted to bully others in the group. I asked the group if anyone knew that the bully had done the same thing in other groups. Someone said they did and that individual took the bully head-on. The bully retreated and was never heard from again. As an aside, I and the cohort that I used to fight the bully had already discussed this tactic before my ally engaged him. The bully had perpetrated the same tactics in a different forum that my ally and I were in.
Depending on the severity of the cyberbullying, you can get law officials involved, private detectives, etc. Regardless of the countermeasures you engage in, use them strongly enough to arrest the bully's activities. Crush his will to engage you further so he dares not return to his former activities against you... and everything will be right with the world.
Remember, you're always negotiating!
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