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8/6/2013 6:05:10 PM
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Girl, 14, Commits Suicide Over Ask.fm Cyber Bullying
I just saw this on the news and whoa. I honestly can't believe what I am seeing. I am literally face palming.
A 14 year old girl committed suicide over bullying on her Ask.fm page. For those of you that don't know, Ask.fm is a page where you register to have have people ask you questions. Basically attention whore central. The users that ask questions are almost always anonymous, so as you can imagine, the level of random spam questions and even borderline creepy and stalkerish is abundant. You don't even need an account to post. So as you can imagine, the amount of reports must be through the roof, and honestly, I don't see the moderators doing anything about it because that's just how the page is ad has always been. It's like having a mental breakdown after going to much on chatroulette and seeing too many dicks. Why do you keep going there then? I understand she's 14, but c'mon.
So, what I can't believe is that if this girl has insecurities, AND was getting bullied on this page, why wouldn't she just close it down or delete it? Why don't tell her parents who would have done something about it? Why just start posting those damn pictures of written things searching for attention? I feel bad for the family and all for their loss, but seriously, call me cold or whatever, but I have no sympathy for the girl herself. It's just a huge facepalm. It's like standing in the middle of a bulls eye, knowing what's coming, but too lazy to do anything about it. She literally got trolled to death.
If it were on facebook or Twitter or whatever, okay, some room for understanding. But suicide over Ask.fm? Seriously? I just... complete face palm. I not too sure how it'll work, but I highly doubt the Police will get very far in their investigation. All this does is going to give more people more reasons to moderate the internet and take anything you say as a potential serious threat and get in trouble for it here in England.
What are your thoughts on this?
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7 RepliesEdited by Oneironaut: 8/7/2013 3:23:05 AMDidn't read. I'm probably going to get called a few things for this but honestly... [quote]What are your thoughts on this?[/quote] No -blam!-s given whatsoever. I don't take cyber bullying seriously in the least bit. You know why? [spoiler]'Cause it's on the -blam!-ing internet. That's why.[/spoiler] It's too damn easy to just stop going to the site, block a person, change accounts or simply make yourself more anonymous (i.e. quit posting pictures of yourself and handing out information like candy on Halloween). And before someone accuses me of being insensitive, or says something like "it's easy for you to say all that 'cause you've never experienced it." well you can stop right there. I have been harassed (I'm not going to say "bullied" 'cause that just sounds dumb) both online and irl. I got over it. If a depressed person like me with zero confidence in myself can get over it, so can others, especially if said harassment is only online. I could go on, but there really is no need to. I'm also going to mention that I understand that the site itself isn't necessarily what made her commit suicide. She most likely had some crap going on in her life that was hard for her to handle and used the internet as a means of dealing with it, not knowing that the internet would just make things worse. I can assume this because that's how I was (and still am to a certain extent). I'm not going to go into detail as to why I'm depressed, but I used things like xbl and the internet to sort of escape reality. Unfortunately as I said that just makes you feel worse do to the kind of people on the internet. If you're already feeling blue, going online to escape and instead getting bashed whether because of your appearance, the sound of your voice, the way you play a video game, your sexual preference, your religion etc. isn't going to make you feel any better, so I understand what she most likely went through. However, that doesn't mean there aren't other options. For one, you can get off your computer all together and find a hobby that you enjoy and use that hobby as a means of escaping reality instead of the internet.
