talk about this now with neil walsh he's head of cyber crime the site of cyber crime unit at the united nations office on drugs and crime he joins us from vienna thank you for being with us this morning it's now i want to begin by talking about about children who are using their mobile phones not just to chat with friends but to talk to strangers online it's estimated that a third of children do this talk to strangers online how can we reduce the risk of coming into contact with predators. i think listening to the report that you've already had and listening to what kids are saying we have to integrate being sipho law and how to manage your online presence from a really early age if we start talking about it days go through or we start talking about it at home when kids are teenagers are older it's already too late so we need to start from a really early age and make it part of the national curriculum now a recent international survey showed that over thirty young people have also been bullied online in a report there we heard some saying that they feel bad after being online some time

all right let's talk more about this story now with neil walsh she is the head of the cyber crime unit at the united nations office on drugs and crime neal thank you for joining us from vienna i know we've just heard from two students here about the pressures that they face on social media their individual experiences as well are these typical of young users well good afternoon i think it's exactly typical of younger users but it was really inspiring was listening to how me only have talked about it in clubs how it's clearly a discussion going on with their teachers with their peer groups and they thought about how to respond to it if something goes wrong and that's the key thing to dealing with any sort of risk or do you do when it happens a recent survey internationally showed that over a third of young people have been bullied online why is this such a widespread problem. i'm not the problem that statistic and one wonders if it's even under reported statistic if you think that some of the mechanisms for bullying online it's really easy for anyone a child or an adult to set up a prof