Editing Cyberbullying (section)

=== In social media ===
Cyberbullying can take place on social media sites such as [[Facebook]], [[Myspace]], and [[Twitter]]. "By 2008, 93% of young people between the ages of 12 and 17 were online. In fact, youth spend more time with media than any single other activity besides sleeping."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pewresearch.org/millennials/teen-internet-use-graphic/ |title=Teen and Young Adult Internet Use |work=Pew Internet Project |access-date=January 5, 2015}}</ref> The last decade has witnessed a surge of cyberbullying, which is categorized as bullying that occurs through the use of electronic communication technologies, such as e-mail, instant messaging, social media, online gaming, or through digital messages or images sent to a cellular phone.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kowalski |first1=Robin M. |last2=Giumetti |first2=Gary W. |last3=Schroeder |first3=Amber N. |last4=Lattanner |first4=Micah R. |title=Bullying in the digital age: A critical review and meta-analysis of cyberbullying research among youth. |journal=Psychological Bulletin |date=July 2014 |volume=140 |issue=4 |pages=1073–1137 |doi=10.1037/a0035618 |pmid=24512111 }}</ref>

There are many risks attached to social media sites, and cyberbullying is one of the larger risks.<ref name=":12"/> One million children were harassed, threatened or subjected to other forms of cyberbullying on Facebook during the past year,{{when|date=December 2017}} while 90 percent of social-media-using teens who have witnessed online cruelty say they have ignored mean behavior on social media, and 35 percent have done so frequently. Ninety-five percent of social-media-using teens who have witnessed cruel behavior on social networking sites say they have seen others ignoring the mean behavior, and 55 percent have witnessed this frequently.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.internetsafety101.org/cyberbullyingstatistics.htm |title=Cyberbullying Statistics |work=Internet Safety 101 |access-date=January 5, 2015}}</ref> Terms like "Facebook depression" have been coined specifically in regard to the result of extended social media use, with cyberbullying playing a large part in this.{{citation needed|date=February 2021}}
[[File:Submit The Documentary,March 2013.jpg|thumb|Submit The Documentary. An award-winning documentary about the effects of cyberbullying that is shown in schools across the globe.]]

Cyberbullying has become more common nowadays because of all the technology that children have access to. The most common apps that teenagers use to cyberbully are [[Instagram]], Twitter, and [[Snapchat]].<ref name=":12">{{cite journal |last1=Byrne |first1=Elizabeth |last2=Vessey |first2=Judith A. |last3=Pfeifer |first3=Lauren |title=Cyberbullying and Social Media: Information and Interventions for School Nurses Working With Victims, Students, and Families |journal=The Journal of School Nursing |date=February 2018 |volume=34 |issue=1 |pages=38–50 |doi=10.1177/1059840517740191 |pmid=29103352 |doi-access=free }}</ref> Cyberbullying has become harder to stop because parents and teachers are unaware of when and where it is happening.<ref name=":12" /> Teens will say awful things to one another online and what they do not realize is that once it is said and published online it will not go away. Home used to be a safe place for teens, but now a child is still within reach of becoming a victim of cyberbullying- whether it is through [[YouTube]], [[Ask.fm]], or a [[Text messaging|text message]].<ref name=":13" /><ref name=":12" />

According to a 2013 [[Pew Research Center|Pew Research]] study, eight out of ten teens who use social media now share more information about themselves than they have in the past. This includes their location, images, and contact information.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pewinternet.org/2013/05/21/teens-social-media-and-privacy/ |title=Teens, Social Media, and Privacy |access-date=November 15, 2015|date=May 21, 2013 }}</ref> In order to protect children, it is important that personal information such as age, birthday, school/church, phone number, etc. be kept confidential.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.highya.com/articles-guides/stranger-danger-protecting-your-children-from-cyber-bullying-sexting-and-social-media |title=Stranger Danger: Protecting Your Children from Cyber Bullying, Sexting, & Social Media |access-date=November 15, 2015}}</ref>

Two studies from 2014 found that 80% of body-shaming [[Twitter|tweets]] are sent by women, while they also accounted for 50% of [[Misogyny|misogynistic]] tweets.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36380247|title=Twitter abuse - '50% of misogynistic tweets from women'|date=May 26, 2016|work=BBC News|access-date=September 7, 2017|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.demos.co.uk/press-release/staggering-scale-of-social-media-misogyny-mapped-in-new-demos-study/|title=New Demos study reveals scale of social media misogyny - Demos|website=www.demos.co.uk|language=en-GB|access-date=September 7, 2017}}</ref>

Cyberbullying can also take place through the use of websites belonging to certain groups to effectively request the targeting of another individual or group. An example of this is the [[#Bullying of climate scientists and activists|bullying of climate scientists and activists]].<ref name=scientificamerican-climate>{{cite web|url=http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-cyber-bullying|title=Cyber Bullying Intensifies as Climate Data Questioned|author1=Douglas Fischer |author2=The Daily Climate |work=scientificamerican.com}}</ref><ref name=timemag-climate>{{cite magazine|url=http://ideas.time.com/2012/04/10/when-grownups-bully-climate-scientists/|title=Dominique Browning: When Grownups Bully Climate Scientists – TIME.com|magazine=TIME.com}}</ref><ref name=latrobe-climate>{{cite web|url=http://www.latrobe.edu.au/news/articles/2011/opinion/bullying-climate-change-scientists|title=Bullying climate change scientists|work=latrobe.edu.au}}</ref>