9 facts about bullying in the U.S.
35% of U.S. parents with children younger than 18 say they are extremely or very worried that their children might be bullied at some point.
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35% of U.S. parents with children younger than 18 say they are extremely or very worried that their children might be bullied at some point.
41% of U.S. adults say people should be able to sue social media companies for content that other users post on these companies’ platforms.
43% of those who report experiencing harassing behavior online say that they consider their most recent experience to be “online harassment.”
A majority of LGB adults report that they have used an online dating site or app, roughly twice the share of straight adults who say the same.
Six-in-ten women under 35 who have online dated say someone continued to contact them after they said they were not interested.
The tech landscape has changed dramatically over the past decade, both in the United States and around the world.
Roughly six-in-ten U.S. teens have been bullied or harassed online. Senior Researcher Monica Anderson discusses the methods and meaning behind the data.
Read a Q&A with Maeve Duggan, Pew Research Center research associate, on our survey examining online harassment in the United States.
What the data show on bullying, drug and alcohol use, depression, violence and other common sources of parental concern.
For SXSW, we gathered key facts about Americans’ views and uses of technology.
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