Online Bullying Counselling on Increase, Says Childline (bbc.com)

An anonymous reader shares a BBC report:The number of children and young people needing counseling about online bullying has increased by 88 percent over five years, according to a helpline. The NSPCC's Childline service said it counselled more than 4,500 children in the past year compared to about 2,400 in 2011-12. The total number suffering online abuse is thought to be far higher. Some children as young as seven told Childline how they were tormented, abused and scared to go to school. The charity said online trolls caused misery and humiliation for thousands of children. Childline's president Dame Esther Rantzen said the figures should be a wake-up call. "Bullying can wreck young people's lives, especially now that the bullies don't stop at the school gates," she said. Cyber-bullying can follow them home until it becomes a persecution they cannot escape.

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Re:An important study...

[Calydor]

'Actively seek out'

You mean like checking your email, Facebook comments, or turning on an IM program?

You have no idea the trouble a bully will go to in order to win, do you? You know how it used to be that the bullied kid would get chased from school until the bullies caught him and beat him up? That is now EVERYWHERE ON THE INTERNET. So yeah, the victim of bullying should just go fully, completely and permanently offline. With the way the internet is used for everything today, you might as well tell him to go kill himself.

Oh wait. Isn't that part of the bullying, too?