School children in Adelaide are "victims, teased and ridiculed" on the Internet, and instant messages and blogs on the Internet Keep parents secret.
A survey reveals how students exchange insults, threats, and clear pictures through a home computer network.
Police say they have investigated such cyber crimes and, in some cases, charged children.
Follow up, harass and threaten bullying crimes such as other students and child pornography.
Schools and police say parents do not understand the extent to which the dark side of online social networks is potentially destructive.
"Adelaide now has a huge network --
Through blogs and text messages
"This is an incredible web of communication Spider," said a school leader who declined to be named . ".
"This has had a huge impact on the social dynamics of our children.
The computer is regarded asway mirror -
It distorted how they felt about the real world.
"The reputation of children who make mistakes can be destroyed.
"Children may get hurt, laughed at and laughed at because of their boy or girl friends. . .
Then laugh out of town.
"Messaging software programs allow users to instantly send text messages and digital photo files to each other over the Internet and notify friends or other users when they are online.
While a school leader says message boards on a blog post, abuse of these forums is considered to be the most common
Or personal page-
More and more popular.
Teachers and parents have presented blogs to advertisers, including photos of malicious insults and scantily
Young girl in clothes
"All I see on this site is all about you. . .
A message on a teenage girl's blog "shout box" said:
Or message board
The high school teacher said: "There is now a huge network of young people who feel like they have a secure connection but are actually very loose and insecure.
The children tell their parents that their website is a password.
Protected but told everyone the password and passed-
So it's completely unprotected.
"Barry Brendel, senior police officer of SA Police's e-crime unit detective, said that children were warned due to criminal acts online and sent to family meetings or to court.
"Criminal offences related to online behavior of children in school must have been reported to the police and have been investigated," he said . ".
The head of a school in Adelaide told educators that they were trying to inform parents about the network.
Bullying, but it is difficult to convey the urgency of the situation.
The head of the school said a joint information conference with South African police took very little place about six weeks ago.
"It seems really sad that parents just want such advice when they think they need it," the principal said . ".
This month, police issued a warning to parents asking them to supervise and monitor their children's use of the Internet.
The school computer network contains firewalls and software that blocks access to messages and blogs.
But even the majority of teachers and parent groups do not know the size and content of the information and blog network.
Bob Heath, president of the Association of South Australian middle school principals, said: "Of course I don't know.
I have not asked any principal to raise this issue to me.
But Heath says schools cannot monitor students' computer usage at home and urge parents to communicate with their children about what they are doing online.
Dr. Colette Snowden of the School of Communication at the University of South Australia said it is essential to understand the "viral" nature of Internet information.
"The Whispers on campus have been magnified thousands of times," she said . "". . .
Even if you try to recall a message, it's out there if you miss only one person.
Jane Lomax, Minister of Education
In an email statement, Smith said,
On last July, the bullying coalition, consisting of government, Catholic and independent schools, will meet on January to discuss a national campaign to alert parents to cyberbullying.
She said the government released a package of information on cyberbullying to schools in July 2004.
Dr. Lomax said: "The school has been working on this since then, but we want to make sure that we take all possible actions to deal with this behavior
Smith said in response to The Advertiser's question about what action the government is taking.
Meanwhile, the SA Police e-crime section has developed a number of projects that will be distributed today to all community police units across the state.
Five programs cover security topics (
Parents, caregivers and young children), security (Firewall, defensevirus software)
Fraud, respect (
For teenagers)
And legislation (
More specific Police).
Samantha Helen, head of communications at Microsoft, said the company joined the federal government, ninemsn and the Virtual Global Task Force in October to launch a plan called "You know, it aims to raise awareness of internet security issues.
The program will provide interactive internet security training to primary and secondary schools through the volunteer network.