More school-aged children have reported being cyberbullied compared to before the Covid-19 pandemic, a survey suggests.
Nearly one in six adolescents have experienced cyberbullying, an international study has found.
More school-aged children have reported being cyberbullied compared to before the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Europe.
A study, which looked at bullying among adolescents from 44 countries and regions, including England, Wales and Scotland, found 15% reported being cyberbullied at least once or twice in the past couple of months.
The Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) survey, of more than 279,000 people aged 11, 13 and 15 years old in 2021/22, suggests the proportion of adolescents who reported being cyberbullied has increased since 2018, from 12% to 15% for boys and 13% to 16% for girls.
This is only what is reported it is likely way higher unfortunately.
It also depends on your definition of cyberbullying. Is a mean comment under one or two posts already enough? Does it have to be consistent? Does it have to be from the same Person?
I don’t want to undersell Cyberbullying, it definitely is a problem, but a lot of these surveys have vague questions that can be interpreted in massively different ways, both from the person that answers them and from the researchers that formulated them.
A girl doxxed my daughter over Discord and pranked called her multiple times (we’re still not sure how she got our address and her phone number). When we contacted thee school, they decided that meant that, because my daughter got rightfully pissed off about it, that they had to apologize to each other. Nothing else was done about it. It was one of the last steps before we pulled her out of there and put her in online school.
Addresses and phone numbers are public. Instead of a phone book now you can just search a website.
For kids?
Not sure about kids. But with a last name and a city it can be pretty easy to find the parents. Here is one example of such a site if you wanna check it out.
Her name did not turn up, but her last name is unusual, so they might have figured it out from that. If there are any people other than us in this small city with our last name, I’d actually be surprised.
Yeah. Whitepages will list all people and phone numbers related to a person. You just have to pay them for it.
You can also ask them to remove it, but it doesn’t keep it off forever.
Wow. That sucks.
However, these are 13-year-olds, so I don’t think they paid for it.
I play apex legends. I experience cyber bullying from teens daily.
