According to teens that have been targeted:
-Harassers tend to be older teens (like 13-17 instead of 10-12).
-About half of the bullies are male, about 30% are female, and about 20% aren’t known to the teen who is being bullied
-About half of the time, the teen knows their harasser in the offline world. The rest of the time, the teen knows the harasser only in the online world. Sometimes, but not often, teens are harassed by people they don’t know online or offline.
According to teens who admit being a cyberbully or Internet harasser:
-Between 21-30% of youth have harassed others online in the last year
-Between 18-28% have made rude or nasty/mean comments to another person online.
-11% say they’ve spread rumors about another person online
-5% say they’ve made threatening or aggressive comments to others online
-9% have harassed or embarrassed another person online on purpose
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