12 months in at least one of the four scenarios about which we asked. Half of bullied teens say they were bullied in multiple ways. 12% of all teens report being bullied in person in the last 12 months. 9% of all teens have been bullied via text message in the last 12 months. 8% say they have experienced some form of online bullying, such as through email, a social network site or instant messaging. 7% say they have been bullied by voice calls over the phone. Girls are much more likely than boys to report they had been bullied in various ways, except in-person bullying, which happened to boys and girls in roughly equal proportion. How do people respond to mean behavior online? Teens say they most often see people ignoring cruelty, but a substantial number have witnessed others standing up for victims. Social media-using teens who have witnessed online cruelty say that people most often appear to ignore the situation, with a slightly smaller number of teens saying they also see others defending someone and telling others to stop their cruel behavior. 95% of social media-using teens who have witnessed cruel behavior on the sites say they have seen others ignoring the mean behavior; 55% witness this frequently. 84% have seen people defend the person being harassed, with 27% seeing this frequently. 84% have seen others tell someone to stop; 20% report seeing this frequently. A majority of teens say their own reaction has been to ignore mean