There has currently been a great use of a website called Ask.fm. Ask.fm allows people to create a profile with their picture and information about themselves. Any person or a current user can access the profiles of other users and can choose to ask a them any question anonymously or to identify their user information along with the question they ask.Many believe it's a great way to compliment people or to simply ask positive questions. Sounds fun right? Well, there has been many problems dealing with his website. Although Ask.fm has a positive purpose, many teenagers are using the website as a way to insult and harass their peers. There are several users of Ask.fm that are being bullied by anonymous people and such actions can create negative thoughts to young people.As users can anonymously say whatever they want to others, these type of sites have led to cyberbullying and even suicides.
Therefore, there are many parents taking action concerning this website. Parents fear that their child may be using this site and may even be either a victim or a bully using Ask.fm.According to Joan Early, Teens flock to Ask.fm but is the social media site dangerous?, suicides of nine teenagers have been linked to Ask.fm this year alone. Jessica Laney hung herself after she was bullied relentlessly through her Ask.fm account, according to her family. Anonymous users called Jessica "fat" and "a slut." One post read, "Can you kill yourself already?" The harassment proved to be too much for the Florida teen to take. I believe this website should be taken down as it can cause conflicts upon teenagers. Many people encourage us to stop bullying right? So there should be action taken against Ask.fm.
I think that this is an interesting topic and I am glad you had the foresight to bring it up. I agree that these sites do promote bullying AND violence. World Star Hip Hop I think is just as bad; look at Sharkeisha and how she has risen to fame on both twitter (as a hashtag) and her video being played around the world. We tend to forget there is a victim in this! Social media is damaging everything that was positive about life.
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