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SAN FRANCISCO, Apr 12, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- A new study finds that girls are increasingly bullying other girls via cell phone and text messaging.
Researchers looked at 65 15- to 18-year-old girls and found bullies used text messaging more than the Internet and traditional playground methods.
Forty-five percent of the girls, who lived in a well-off Sacramento suburb, said they've been victims, USA Today reports.
The study was presented at the American Educational Research Association meeting in San Francisco.
It follows recent revelations in New Zealand that a young girl received so many harassing text messages that she killed herself.
Researcher Juliana Raskauskas conducted the study while at the University of California-Davis -- she's now at Massey University in New Zealand.
Raskauskas said she plans to study the bullying habits of boys.
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