Cyberbullying - Social media timebomb

Social media is having a negative effect on children and teenagers in Ireland, a cross-party group of TDs and senators warned yesterday. The Office of Internet Safety is not even trying to deal with cyberbullying.

There is no proper means of regulating social media users who engage in such bullying. Regulation is left to the social media companies themselves, and they are not equipped to deal with the problem.

One such provider noted, for instance, that it receives some 100,000 requests per day, but it has only 90 people to deal with these requests. Hence many complaints about cyberbullying are ignored.