No Child's Play: Online Bullying A Growing Worry

"Specific workshops have been conducted for school children on making them aware about risks on Internet and adopting safe Internet browsing practices. In these programmes, around 710 workshops have been organised across the country covering large number of organisations, schools, students and teachers," he said.

"A website (secureyourpc.in) for children, home users and elderly is available for safeguarding their computer systems and learning the risks on Internet," Prasad told the parliamentarians in reply to a question.

The government response came following a survey done by cyber space information protection expert Symantec that about 18 percent of children have said they have been victim of bullying on the Internet. The sample size of the survey was 203 children.

Chopra said that these problems arise more often "when people cannot distinguish between the virtual and real worlds".

"They tend to spend more time on devices. Children often tend to share personal information on social network sites that may invite bigger troubles.

"Like if they are going for vacation, they share it on their social networking sites, which means they are letting the entire world know that the house will remain empty," Chopra said, adding that: "Just like you lock your doors at night, one should also log out of all the social media sites when they are not in use."

Citing examples of cyber bullying, he said there are many incidents when a child has taken photograph of a peer's report card who failed in a few subjects and posted that on social network sites.

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