Suicide and social networking

'As the Internet and online social networks continue to grow so does cyber bullying.'

• Megan Meier was a pretty, 13 year old girl who killed herself due to online bullying and was a well known case back in 2007. This was writtten by the telegraph newspaper.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1569949/Girl-13-commits-suicide-after-online-bullying.html#

• 'Cyber bullying victims are more likely to have low self esteem and to consider suicide.'

-Cyberbullying Research Center, "Summary of our cyberbullying research from 2004-2010" [online]

Bullying victims are 2 to 9 times more likely to commit suicide.
The CDC states that bullying victims are 2 to 9 times more likely to commit suicide or attempt it than those who do not experience bullying. This is not just true for the victims of bullies, but it is also true for the bullies themselves. Bullies are often the product of an abusive environment and are likely to be victims of bullying themselves. These specific numbers come from the 2011 Mortality and Morbidity report that the CDC issued. In the report, CDC professionals cite a correlation between bullying and higher suicide rates.

This was a chart created in 2008 (hopefully you can see it)