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p911
(parent alert)
cybertext translation:

Cyber communication is now and everywhere.
We cannot help, protect, or monitor our kids without recognizing the threat.

•Instant Message harassment has gone
from 25% to 47%

• 33% of kids have been victimized
by a cyberbully

• 68% of girls report being harassed or
bullied online

Cyberbullying is an unsupervised, anonymous, and dangerous act.

• 35% of kids have been threatened online –
1 in 5 more than once

• 72% of harassment episodes happened to
kids ages 14-17