Are Bebo cyberbullying figures for real?
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Bebo claim the following:
"90% of the middle school students we polled admitted to having had their feelings hurt online. 75% of the preteen and young teen students we polled reported being involved directly or indirectly in a cyberbullying incident. They were either the cyberbully, the victim or a close friend of one or the other. Sixty percent have heard of or seen a website bashing another student in their school, and 45% have visited a bashing website. Forty percent have either had their password stolen and changed by a bully (locking them out of their own account) or had communications sent to others posing as them. Many studies that ask kids if they have been cyberbullied fall short of measuring the real problem for failing to define the scope of the issue." (http:/
These figures are really high, much higher than every one of the international studies I've found to date, and Bebo cite their own study - which I've been unable to find anywhere. Nor have they answered my email query.
I'm trying to design a survey for Australian youth at present - if anyone has connections to Bebo I'd appreciate an answer...
"90% of the middle school students we polled admitted to having had their feelings hurt online. 75% of the preteen and young teen students we polled reported being involved directly or indirectly in a cyberbullying incident. They were either the cyberbully, the victim or a close friend of one or the other. Sixty percent have heard of or seen a website bashing another student in their school, and 45% have visited a bashing website. Forty percent have either had their password stolen and changed by a bully (locking them out of their own account) or had communications sent to others posing as them. Many studies that ask kids if they have been cyberbullied fall short of measuring the real problem for failing to define the scope of the issue." (http:/
These figures are really high, much higher than every one of the international studies I've found to date, and Bebo cite their own study - which I've been unable to find anywhere. Nor have they answered my email query.
I'm trying to design a survey for Australian youth at present - if anyone has connections to Bebo I'd appreciate an answer...
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