Selected news stories about the Pew Internet Project and articles citing our data.
I'm, Like, So Being Harassed Online
6/27/2007 | 
Coverage
Erin Joyce , InternetNews.com, Stats
'"You've heard of the mean girl syndrome, a streak of cruelty that subsumes young girls bent on agonizing, terrorizing and otherwise bullying other boys and girls they deem uncool, too pretty, smart or guilty of some unknown offense.
Looks like some of that behavior translates easily to the Web. About one third of all teenagers who use the Internet say they have been targets of menacing behavior online, according to new research from Pew Internet & America Life Project.
The most common form of "cyberbullying," the study results found, was taking information once thought to be private and plastering it across the ether.
Whether mean girls are the main culprits behind online bullying isn't clear in the survey results. But Amanda Lenhart, senior research specialist for Pew, said she found plenty of empirical evidence to suggest that the mean girl syndrome travels well onto the Web."
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