Origin and current situation in Taiwan

• IT integration in K-12 curriculum. Exponential growth of technology has changed social interactions, learning strategies & choice of entertainment for adolescents
  
• Access to the online emerging technologies provides new communication tool for youth, whose use of email, IM, webcams, chat rooms, social networking sites, and text messages is exposing worldwide.
• Although Internet provides opportunities for social support, identity exploration & educational development, it is concurrently a site for abuse & victimization.
  
• The Internet & other forms of communication technology place children & youth at risk of being bullied online.
  
• A recent study by Chou (2009) among junior high school students:
  1. 30 % of the students have been bullied
  2. 40 % of the victims would talk to their classmates or friends
  3. 20 % to brothers and sisters
  4. 15 % to parents
  5. 25 % chose to be silent