Research by academics at the London School of Economics found that during 2013, 12 per cent of children reported being bullied online – known as cyberbullying – with nine per cent reporting that they had suffered face-to-face bullying.
This is in contrast to 2010, when 16 per cent of children reported being bullied face to face and eight per cent cyberbullied.
The proportion of nine- to 16-year-olds who have been “bothered, uncomfortable or upset” by something online in the past year has increased from 13 to 15 per cent in 2013 – with such experiences being reported more often by girls and older teens.
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