ESSENTIAL STATISTICS & FACTS

Important and interesting figures are:

- 44% of users of the Internet say they have met online abuse.

- 37% of school students claim they have been bullied via the Internet at least once.

- Young people who are bullied are more than two times more likely to self-injure or set up suicidal behavior than non-bullied ones.

- The anonymity problem: about 64% of victims say that their abuser has remained entirely anonymous or used someone else's name.

Definitions:

- The online disinhibition effect refers to loosening social barriers and a lack of sympathy during online communication.

- Trolling implies deliberately making provocative comments.

- Cyberbullying means repeated aggression directed against people via the Internet.

- Doxxing is an action aimed at gaining private information about a person with the aim to harm him or her.