Nearly half of people online have experienced some form of abuse. According to the Pew Research Center, 73 percent of adult internet users have seen online harassment in some way while 40 percent have personally experienced it.
This varied from the common practice of petty name calling, something many users ignore, right up to more severe forms of harrassment including physical threats, stalking and sexual abuse.
Who's most at risk from online harassment? Age and gender are closely intertwined with those aged 18-29 most likely to encounter some form of online abuse. While men are most at risk from milder categories like name calling and embarrassment, women are more at risk from the most severe forms of online harassment.
26 percent of women have been stalked online while 25 percent have been sexually harassed. Half of all people who have experienced online abuse did not know the identity of the perpetrator in their most recent incident.
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