Monday, October 10, 2011

Online Harassment

This is an excerpt from Malware City.com,

These are interesting statistics about activity on the net:
16-18 year adolescents:
do various research projects for homework (43%)
hang out on social networks (31%)

while most 11-15 year-olds:
chat using instant messaging platforms (87%).

How much do parents know?
89% of the parents recognized that their children had been threatened, harassed or humiliated on the Internet
54% admitted that their kids had been very affected by these incidents
As a consequence of these cyber-bulling events, the children became sad, angry, violent, or apathetic.
19 % of parents sought specialized help for their children

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