Cyberbullying-What+is+it?

    ** // CYBERBULLYING  // **   ** // WHAT IS IT? // **    · Cyberbullying refers to bullying through information and communication technologies. This can take the form of mobile phone text messages, email, online chat rooms and most recently through social networking sites.  · Cyberbullying is growing in trend, particularly with the growth in technology use.  · It is thought to have a greater effect on children than school yard bullying.  · Home cannot even be seen as a refuge from bullies with this growth in cyberbullying.  · Recent surveys have shown that one-third of teenagers have had mean,  threatening or embarrassing things said about them online. 10 percent of  teenagers were threatened online with physical harm. 16 percent of  <span style="border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0cm;"> teenagers who were victims told no one about it.