Girls are twice as likely as boys to experience cyber-bullying

GIRLS are twice as likely as boys to experience cyber-bullying, according to new findings.

The report, published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre, found nearly twice as many girls, 19 per cent, than boys, 10 per cent, reported being a victim of cyber-bullying in 2014.

Overall, more than half of young people in England said they had experienced some form of bullying in the past couple of months.

The findings are taken from the first ‘What About YOUth? Survey’.

More than 120,000 15-year-olds responded to questions about smoking, general health, wellbeing, physical activity and free time, diet, drinking and drugs.

On reading this report I was not surprised by the figures.

It is almost as if bullying is something my generation has become used to, which of course is ridiculous.

However, I do think that with the advances in technology and with more teenagers like myself now on Facebook more people are being bullied at a more serious level and I do think more does need to be done to try and tackle this issue.

I think girls are twice as likely to experience cyber-bullying as we, on the surface, generally seem to care more about our appearances and how we are perceived by other people.