Girls are reporting three times as much harassment online as boys amid a nationwide rise in cyberbullying, new data shows.
Among middle and high school students, 21% of girls say they have been bullied online or by text messages, compared with less than 7% of boys, according to the National Center for Education Statistics .
Cyberbullying can also include sharing personal or private information about someone else that causes embarrassment or humiliation, the website notes. In the study from the Pew Research Center, boys and girls said they have been cyberbullied at similar rates , but researchers found girls were more likely to be targets of online rumor-spreading and the receiving of unsolicited explicit images.
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