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BBC - Newsbeat - Not enough done to tackle cyberbullying, warns NSPCC - 4 views

www.bbc.co.uk/16915104

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  • One thousand teenagers across the UK were questioned for the survey and 12% said they had been cyberbullied.
  • more than half a million
  • It follows you home, it follows you over the weekend, it doesn't leave you alone.
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  • educating the children they come into contact with into staying safe online.
  • Jorge F1 on 08 Feb 12
     
    The news article shows some very important facts for instance, out of 5.3m teenagers in the UK more than half a million of them have suffered from cyber bullying. Furthermore, as social networks are now becoming more available on mobile devices this number is likely to increase in the coming years.
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  • Jorge F1 on 08 Feb 12
     
    This website offers good advice on how cyber bullying works and prevention techniques: http://www.stopcyberbullying.org/index2.html
  • Ines Simon on 08 Feb 12
     
    Nowadays lots of cyber bullying is going on, and it is increasing. Not only cyber bullying exists via text messages, yet also through anonymous calls and what is increasing a lot now, via social networks. People create facebook pages with names such as 'The ugliest person in Cascais' (this is probably an example of one of the 'less worse') and post images of people, with insulting descriptions on the photos. This is a big issue since people who are bullied may psychologically or even physically suffer from this. "half a million of them had been a victim of online bullying.". Technology is increasing, so surely, if no one tries to actually do something to change this, cyber bullying will also increase.
  • Morten Nielsen on 08 Feb 12
     
    I'm a bit surprised at the number, it's lower than what I thought it would be. Perhaps I'm just a pessimist. Nevertheless, I agree with Ines. We're getting more and more cyber bullying, Stopping cyber bullying has proved difficult with the exponential growth of social networking. Cyber bullying is of course as we know, the use of the Internet or text messaging to bully others. But what can we do to change this escalation of cyber bullying? Not a whole lot really, in my opinion. Kids will, unsurprisingly, bully each other. The Facebook-generation is merely using the medium they are given.
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