How many teens have killed themselves because of cyberbullying?

AshAttack: How many teens have killed themselves because of cyberbullying?
It’s for my speech and i cannot find a website or any statistics that help..
but basically the question above is what i need.
If you want to get more specific.
How many teens have killed themselves because of facebook bullying?

Answers and Views:

Answer by Annah
Please use the search engine. This is literally asked about eight times an hour for the last six days 🙁

Answer by Dan the man
Thats just it kiddo.

There aren’t that many reported deaths due to it. 4 have been reported so far.

Cyperbullying Statistics

Four in ten teens (43%) have experienced online harassment.
Girls are twice as likely as boys to be victims and perpetrators, usually through email or a social networking sites, where they typically engage in social sabotage. Cyberbullying is most prevalent among 15 and 16 year olds.
Teens who share their identities and thoughts on social networking sites, such as MySpace and FaceBook, are more likely to be targets than are those who do not use social networking sites (39% have been cyberbullied in someway, compared with 22% of online teens who do not use social networks).
National phone survey of 935 teenagers by Pew Internet and American Life, November 2006
Here are some additional cyberbullying statistics from iSafe.

22% of students know someone who has been bullied online.
19% of students admit to saying something hurtful to others online.
12% of students have personally become upset by strangers online.
90% of middle school students have had their feelings hurt online.
75% have visited a web site bashing another student
40% have had their password(s) stolen and changed by a bully

Cyberbullying has led to at least 4 cases of suicide in the United States and many more abroad. Suicide related to cyberbullying is called “cyberbullycide”

If they had a death toll that would scare you they would publish the hell out of it. It’s hurts peoples feelings and makes them depressed. It doesn’t kill a lot of people.

Answer by Adam F
The specific statistic is irrelevant, all you need to say is that “too many” have died because of bullies, far too many.

Answer by Michael
too many to count and it needs to stop.

Answer by forever_knight102
It doesn’t matter how many kill themselves, since back in the day bullying was used to set status in schools, and the fact is that it still happens today. Bullying merely allows you to find out if you are going to make it in the real world, since the real world is harsh and unforgiving. The one time that someone tried picking on me in school I hit back and was never messed with again, I established that I wasn’t the kid to be messed with and that was that, now if you are small and weak then you either adapt and over come or you become a statistic.

Answer by Krysta
Cyberbullying Can Kill
Some Children Commit Suicide Because of Electronic Bullying

Cyberbullying or electronic bullying is becoming a major problem for many young people and it can be so hurtful that some have even resorted to suicide to stop the pain. Since cyberbullying happens electronically it’s more secretive.

People can use the internet to email or instant message someone hurtful and harassing abusive words or images. Cellular phones, websites and gaming sites are also places bullies use to prey on people. This type of bullying is attractive to cowardly types because they can do it anonymously. Some teens are particularly notorious for spreading rumors and lies about others and the internet offers them an attractive way to do this.

Answer by Snotalie
three, the rest just posted a lot of drama on their facebook pages about how they were GOING to kill themselves until they got it out of their systems.

some people have a lemming gene in them that causes them to kill themselves when times get tough. the rest of us carry on despite thier histionics.

Answer by kookookachoo7863
Sweetie, ask your teacher how anyone could possibly know this? Lots of teen suicides in the past few years, but how can anyone attribute a percentage of them to cyber bullying? I don’t understand how anyone could KNOW these figures, it could only be an estimate and not a very good one, I’m thinking…
Auntie Kookoo