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• 9% of the interviews have been bullied via mobile phones (SMS and calls), and 9% have bullied one of their peers through the same medium. The rate of young people who have been bullied online or have acted in nasty ways towards their peers on the internet (email, MSN Messenger, chat) is 7%. 23% and 17% of the interviewees admit knowing someone who has been bullied via mobile phone or the internet respectively.
• Upper secondary school students report engaging in cyberbullying more than lower secondary school students.
• While bullies who use mobile phones tend to be classmates of the victim, nearly half (47%) of those who have bullied online do so in an anonymous way.
• Although email and messaging are the most popular channels for bullying, bullying through the public diffusion of photos is the form that most bothers the victim. Those who have been bullied online feel frustrated and angry, but some also claim to be indifferent to what has happened.
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