14 DAY TRIAL // One in three teens surfing the Internet is a victim of online harassment while girls seem to be more vulnerable to these attempts. The Pew Internet organization conducted a special report to find out how many online teens are the victims of online harassment and how strong the impact resulted from these attempts is. No more than 32 percent of the teenagers said that they were victims on online cyberbulling.
"About one third (32%) of all teenagers who use the internet say they have been targets of a range of annoying and potentially menacing online activities - such as receiving threatening messages; having their private emails or text messages forwarded without consent; having an embarrassing picture posted without permission; or having rumors about them spread online," it is mentioned in the report.
The girls are more vulnerable than boys, because 16 percent of the subjects said that they were the victims of rumor-spreading cyberbulling in comparison with 9 percent on the other side. Also, 7 percent of the girls mentioned that someone posted an embarrassing picture of them without permission while only 5 percent of the boys confirmed it.
"Older teens, particularly 15- to 17-year-old girls, are more like to report that they have received a threatening email or message. Overall, 9% of online teens ages 12-14 say they have been threatened via email, IM or text, while 16% of online teens ages 15-17 report similar harassment. Among older girls, 19% have received threatening or aggressive email, IMs or text messages. Social network users are more likely than those who do not use social networks to report that someone had sent them a threatening or aggressive email (16% vs. 8%)," it is also mentioned in the report.
If you want to view more information from the research, you can view it on the official page of Pew Internet available here.