Forty Percent of Internet Users Have Been Harrassed Online, Pew Finds
Forty percent of adult Internet users in the U.S. have been harassed online and 73 percent have observed such harassment, said a Pew Research Center survey released Wednesday (http://pewrsr.ch/1yYu3em). Nearly 2,900 Web users were surveyed via the Internet May 30-June…
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30, it said. Twenty-seven percent said they had been called “offensive names” online and 22 percent had someone try to “purposefully embarrass” them, it said. Eight percent of respondents said they had been “physically threatened” online and another 8 percent said they had been “stalked,” it said. Six percent said they had been harassed for a “sustained period,” it said.