According to the Cyberbullying Research Center, approximately 20% of students report experiencing cyberbullying in their lifetimes, and adolescent girls are specifically likely to have experienced it.

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One in five youths between age 10 and 18 have been a victim of cyberbullying or participated in it, according to a survey of 4, 400 children conducted by the Cyberbullying Research Center, an organization tracking the internet bullying trend.

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"We don't think it's a good idea for parents to spy on their kids surreptitiously, because eventually they're going to find something they have to confront them about, and it's going to destroy the other lines of communication, " Justin Patchin, a criminal justice professor and co-director of the Cyberbullying Research Center, told CNN in 2010.

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