Regarding cyberbullying, Nearly 9 in 10 teens report having seen mean or cruel behavior on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, according to the report by the Pew Research Center:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/09/9-out-of-10-teenagers-wit_n_1084482.html

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/09/teenagers-tell-researchers-its-a-cruel-cruel-online-world/

http://www.allfacebook.com/facebook-teenagers-behavior-2011-11

And yet most teens who use social media say that in their experience, people their age are mostly kind to one another on social
network sites. Nearly seven in ten (69 percent) of teens said that peers are mostly kind while 20 percent said peers are mostly unkind with 11 percent saying, “it depends.”:

http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/Teens-and-social-media.aspx

http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/Teens-and-social-media/Summary/Majority-of-teens.aspx

http://www.fastcompany.com/1794080/race-gender-class-and-teenage-social-media?partner=gnews

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