YANA(You Are Not Alone)

YANA(You are not alone)

Don't keep suffering quietly believing that no one understands your pain.We do.

Cyberbullying: the use of electronic communication to bully a person, typically by sending messages of an intimidating or threatening nature.

• 95% of teens in the U.S. are online, and the vast majority access the internet on their mobile device, making it the most common medium for cyber bullying.
• 23% of students reported that they’ve said or done something mean or cruel to another person online. 27% reported that they’ve experienced the same from someone else.
• Girls are more likely than boys to be both victims and perpetrators of cyber bullying. 15% of teen girls have been the target of at least four different kinds of abusive online behaviors, compared with 6% of boys.
• About half of LGBTQ+ students experience online harassment -- a rate higher than average.
• Instagram is the social media site where most young people report experiencing cyberbullying, with 42% of those surveyed experiencing harassment on the platform.
• Instagram is the social media site where most young people report experiencing cyberbullying, with 42% of those surveyed experiencing harassment on the platform.
• 83% of young people believe social media companies should be doing more to tackle cyberbullying on their platforms.
• 83% of young people believe social media companies should be doing more to tackle cyberbullying on their platforms.
• 60% of young people have witnessed online bullying. Most do not intervene.4 out of 5 students (81%) say they would be more likely to intervene in instances of cyberbullying if they could do it anonymously
• Only 1 in 10 teen victims will inform a parent or trusted adult of their abuse

The following is a small sample of the thousands of anecdotal stories and comments we’ve received from children and adolescents who have experienced cyberbullying. If you would like to anonymously submit a description of your cyberbullying experience to us.we are here to listen to you

• ""I get mean messages after posting a picture of me on Instagram, with people telling me I'm fat and ugly and stupid. I don't know what I ever did to anyone. I wish it wasn't anonymous..."" - 15 year-old boy from IL
• ""My sixteen year old son was cyber bullied on Facebook over a period of 8 hours. The event was so traumatic it caused my son to have an acute psychotic break and to be hospitalized in an adolescent psychiatric ward for almost a month. He is changed forever and will never be the same mentally. Internet bullying can hurt and affect people and kids need to know this. These kids are not being punished in any way and think the incident is funny! We know it is life changing." " - Parent of 16 year-old boy from MN.
• ""some weirdo on twitter said some very hurtful things to me. Mostly about being a Christian. i don't want to go into it any more than that."" - 13 year-old girl from WI
• ""Being bullied on websites on YouTube makes me sick since they can post rude comments and make hate videos to humiliate you there nothing but a bunch of stupid high school jocks."" - 23 year-old girl from NM
• ""I stopped being friends with this girl who was just a bad influence on me, and she got a couple of her friends to hate me. On MSN they had a group chat room, and it was the two girls, and they were threatening to bully me at school, and I got scared about it. (The first girl) said if I came to school she would beat me up during recess, so during that day I hid in the bathroom at lunch."" - 12 year-old girl from AL

Some advice to protect yourself from cyberbullies

1. You shouldn't post personal information
2. You shouldn't respond to an angry message with anger
3. You ought to never open messages from strangers
4. You'd better to not post anything that is very private
5. You should beware of certain topics

Many young people suffering of cyberbullying and stay silence in front of this kind of harassment.Your kid can speedly to become a target of internet drifts just by posting a picture of him, answer to a comment, surfing on the net and a lot of others reasons.Generally your kids suffering in silence because he feels overwhelmed by this hatred that is poured on him and doesn't know what to do, even going so far as to think that he deserves this wave of hatred.YANA's Charity our platform online and available on phone is here for that young people who suffering of cyberbullying don't stay silence in front of that and rather denonce that.Indeed, in our platform you can speak annonnymous or not of your story about cyberbullying and share your story with many young people or adults having lived that younger who will be able to identify themselves to you. They will advise and support you in this ordeal.

YANA(You Are Not Alone)