The data describes the percentage of middle and high school students in the U.S. who were cyber bullied, divided by the type of cyber bullying endured. During the August 2016 survey, 10.3% of cyber bullying victims had been impersonated online during the last 30 days. Cyber bullying includes unwanted contact by threatening or insulting the respondent via digital communications as well as sharing private information online.
I have been cyber bullied | 16.9 |
Mean or hurtful comments online | 22.5 |
Rumors online | 20.1 |
Posted mean names or comments online about me with a sexual meaning | 12.7 |
Threatened to hurt me online | 12.2 |
Threatened to hurt me through a cell phone text | 11.9 |
Posted a mean or hurtful picture online of me | 11.1 |
Pretended to be me online | 10.3 |
Posted mean names or comments about my race or color | 10.1 |
Posted a mean or hurtful video online of me | 7.4 |
Created a mean or hurtful web page about me | 7.1 |
One or more of above, two or more times | 25.7 |