Quantifying degree of cyber bullying using level of information shared and associated trust

Social Networking Sites (SNS) plays an integral role in modern life. This provides a platform to connect, to share and to transfer knowledge. Every user gives enough of individual information in their record, for example, name, age, gender, email-Id, phone number, current town, profession, educational details, movies, sports, likes and dislikes, current location and so forth. Some users (cyber predators) use these information´s against the adolescents to harass them over the Internet in an illegal and deceptive way. Adolescents are easy target for the cyber predators, because they easily believe on others. Adolescents find someone trustworthy and start sharing their personal information. In this research work, we conducted a survey on adolescents. We tried to establish a relationship amongst cyber bullying, trust and level of information shared and with the help of this we figured out the root cause of cyber bullying. We also calculated the degree of cyber bullying in the adolescents with respect to different level of shared information.