Cyber Bullying Statistics that may Shock You!
August 27th, 2008 by admin
Bullying is nothing new to school or youth culture. The past several decades in the United States have seen a remarkably consistent pattern, with bullying beginning in the elementary school years, peaking in frequency and intensity during junior high school (grades six through eight) and leveling off (but continuing) through high school.
But the rise of the Internet as a mean of regular communication between our children has opened up new doors for those who wish to bully other children. Chat rooms, MySpace, email, instant messaging and other online tools have all helped create the cyber bullying epidemic.
Statistics about cyberbullying
- According to the National Crime Prevention Center, over 40% of all teenagers with Internet access have reported being bullied online during the past year.
- Girls are more likely than boys to be the target of cyberbullying. Also, there is a direct correlation to the amount of time girls spend online and the likelihood that they will be bullied.
- The National Crime Prevention Center National Crime Prevention Center study found that only 10% of those kids who were bullied told their parents about the incident, and that a mere 18% of the cases were reported to a local or national law enforcement agency.
- Only 15% of parents are “in the know” about their kids’ social networking habits, and how these behaviors can lead to cyberbullying.
- Currently, the most common virtual locations for cyberbullying are chat rooms, social networking web sites, email and instant message systems.
- Of the technologies above, chat rooms are currently where the most cyberbullying occurs, with various sources finding anywhere between 45% - 57% of all incidents originating there.
Social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace are growing fast, and so are the cyberbullying incidents originating from them. Experts believe that they will soon overtake chat rooms as the top source of cyberbullying problems worldwide.- According to a recent study, 58% of 4th through 8th graders reported having mean or cruel things said to them online. 53% said that they have said mean or hurtful things to others while online. 42% of those studied said that they had been “bullied online”, but almost 60% have never told their parents about the incident.
- Cell phone cameras and digital cameras are a growing problem in the cyberbullying world. A recent survey found that 10% of 770 young people surveyed were made to feel “threatened, embarrassed or uncomfortable” by a photo taken of them using a cell-phone camera.
According to extensive research on middle school age students and teenagers online, the fastest growing problems within the world of cyberbullying are:
- Stealing an individual’s name and password to a social networking site, then using their profile to post rumors, gossip or other damaging information.
- Altering photographs using PhotoShop or other photo editing software in order to humiliate the individual.
- Recording conversations without the individual’s knowledge or consent, then posting the call online.
- Creating confrontational and mean-spirited online polls about the individual and posting them on different web sites.
- Using web sites and blogs to post hurtful, embarrassing information about another individual.
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March 24th, 2009 at 11:12 am
i think that cyber bullying needs to be stopped. My class and i have done projects on ways to pervent cyberbullying. This problem needs to be stopped…SERIOUSLY
May 2nd, 2009 at 5:15 am
Fantastic. care to share your sources
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May 5th, 2009 at 5:07 am
oh please, there is no way to completely stop cyber-bullying. The main solution is to educate teachers, parents and most of all teenagers how to deal with this kind of thing. And let me give you a hint, remving or restricting the childs access to the internet is not the answer. In fact, that’ll probably just make things worse
May 20th, 2009 at 11:05 am
Cyber bullying ls a very mean way to bully someone on line and on your phone etc
May 22nd, 2009 at 10:20 am
restricting the childs access may not be the answer but monitoring and being in control the the childs access is absolutley necessary and should be happening! they are children, they need rules and guidance!
August 13th, 2009 at 4:53 am
Im a teenager and been cyber-bullied and it can’t be stopped…everyone has done it and had it happen even if they havent realised it. Like if something was said to them so they said something back to defend themself or meant it jokingly but the person on the other side didn’t see it that way. I don’t agree with it but sadly there’s no way of stopping it only preventing it.
August 26th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
Cyber bulling is a waste of time if you have a problem with someone you should say it to their face insted of being a coward and hiding behind fake alias’s to avoid detection by the people your are bulliyng and you cyberbullies wonder why you are social rejects and duds in society………..
September 25th, 2009 at 6:10 am
I’ve been cyberbullied by a girl in a forum where she is a moderator. And I was just 14.
OK, I have to admit that my posts in the forum were bit funny(according to the members’ point of view) because I never discussed in any forums in my life before so I was having troubles in posting. But that doesn’t mean she just go and humiliate me and let adults make such low comments on me without letting me know.
She used to complain that my posts are childish. And then, the adults seemed to feel excited so they blindly criticized me and made very low jokes on me.
I just discovered her doing that after she started to gossip on me like 3 months. And in those 3 months without recognizing, she spoke regularly with me as if I had done nothing. Geee!
So I responded to her and the cyberbullies and I was really mad.
I was going to make a report on them but I felt that it was useless and decided to leave the forum for good. But when I sometimes think about this, I feel a bit down.
October 4th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
I want to the cyber bulling stoped!!!
October 16th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
I hate cyber bulling. I have been bullyed this way many times. If you are badly bullied, tell an adult or report it to local police. We called the Los Angeles Police Department when someone was bulling our daughter over the internet and they came to our house!
October 21st, 2009 at 6:31 pm
I agree cyberbullying is a serious matter and some people cyberbully without even knowing it.Something ive been taught since i was young is that if you dont have something nice to say dont say it at all!
November 4th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
I AM DOIN A PIP ON THIS SO ANY HELP WOULD BE GREAT
November 12th, 2009 at 6:10 am
Cyber bullying is wrong. i have to do a paper on it and its so hard because you have to agree and disagree with it. Its wrong and some kill and stuff like that because its hurtful
December 29th, 2009 at 8:15 am
Rawrs, i disagree. I have been bullied, cyber and otherwise. Yes it hurts, but it can be stopped. It may take a little while, but ignoring it as if it doesn’t exist doesn’t help either. Telling an adult is the best way, and you may think that it’ll make things worse, but it really doesn’t.