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Catherine Devine, 22, reads instant messages on her laptop screen at her home in Kings Park, N.Y. on Monday. Devine had her first brush with an online bully in seventh grade, before she'd even ventured onto the Internet. A new Associated Press-MTV poll of youth finds that most of them, 56 percent, have been the target of some type of online bullying, a significant increase over just two years ago.
Catherine Devine had her first brush with an online bully in seventh grade, before she'd even ventured onto the Internet. Someone set up the screen name "devinegirl" and, posing as Catherine, sent her classmates instant messages full of trashy talk and lies. "They were making things up about me, and I was the most innocent 12-year-old ever," Devine remembers. "I hadn't even kissed anybody yet."
As she grew up, Devine, now 22, learned to thrive in the electronic village. But like other young people, she occasionally stumbled into one of its dark alleys.
A new Associated Press-MTV poll of youth in their teens and early 20s finds that most of them—56 percent—have been the target of some type of online taunting, harassment or bullying, a significant increase over just two years ago. A third say they've been involved in "sexting," the sharing of naked photos or videos of sexual activity. Among those in a relationship, 4 out of 10 say their partners have used computers or cellphones to...
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