How can you safeguard yourself against Online Trolling?
- It is important to know the measures to safeguard against trolling , as it can be cruel and harmful leading to serious issues like depression, self-harm or attempt to suicide.
- Keep yourself calm and ban/ block the troller, never feed on their bait by reacting to their trolls.
- Think carefully and thoughtfully before responding and put them off with humour or very kind response with specific relevant facts. Always reinforce about no troll policy and friendly group.
- Immediately complain against the troll to the social media help centre.
- Identify and block the troller, few points/traits to identity the online troller are - spelling & grammar mistakes, they exaggerate, they make it personal and act entitled.
- Share your videos privately and restrict your privacy settings to friends only