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The authors in these two texts, "One in five children is victim of cyber-bullying - with girls targeted most" by Nina Lakhani and "Hate and the internet: Does the internet encourage insidious and bullying behavior?" by Aleks Krotoski, have decided to approach the subject, cyber-bullying, from different angles.
Nina Lakhani has written about cyberbullying using statistics and expert opinions and research. For example she involves surveys for Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) which shows that there are twice as likely that girls are exposed to hate emails, threatening texts and humiliating images that have been posted on social networking sites than there are for boys. The ARU has also made a study of 500 10-to 19-year-old who showed that half of those who have been bullied had as a result of bullying suffered mental harm afterwards. Study also showed that more than a quarter missed their classes and more than a third stopped being social outside school simply because they felt afraid or ashamed of being bullied. She also tells about the consequences the cyber-bullying can have with a story from the real life. The story is about a 15 years old schoolgirl named Holly Grogan there in 2009 committed suicide. Holly Grogan jumped to her death after enduring a torrent of abusive messages on her Facebook page.
In the second story tells Aleks Krotoski about his experience with cyber bullying. He focused more on the internet and ask a rhetorical question in its headline: "Is the Internet encouraging insidious and bullying behavior?" In the text you get Aleks say about his owned question by the description of his first experience with a chat room and through the opinions of Dr. Karen Douglas, who states that the ability to remain anonymous is crucial for online hatred.
The text deals with how we interact on the Internet. We meet, creating large communities, socialize ourselves with people who have the same opinions as ourselves, about