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barri--cades · 3 years

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TEENS ARE CYBER BULLYING THEMSELVES

There are times where we are also victims of our own selves and that also applies with cyber bullying. Is is really possible for us to bully ourselves?

Here’s a story of Hannah Smith to rest this case.

Hannah Smith was a 14-year-old living in Lutterworth, England, when she began receiving hateful messages on the social-networking site Ask.fm. A few weeks later, she committed suicide.

Convinced their daughter was a victim of cyber bullying, her family called for the question-and-answer site to be shut down. But when Ask.fm officials investigated what happened, they found that 98 percent of the messages sent to Hannah could be tracked back to her own IP address.

Hannah had been anonymously posting the derogatory comments about herself—something known as digital self-harm. Source: edweek.org

A group conducted a research regarding this with 6,000 respondents and 6% revealed that they in fact cyber bullied themselves.

“These are youth who are knowingly and intentionally posting negative messages about themselves—and reporting that they did so to researchers. We should be deeply concerned that there are young people out there who are struggling and not getting the support that they need,” researcher Danah Boyd said in an email.

Our advocacy also aims to stop self harm in the web and inform people how beautiful and worthy they are. To all people who are reading this, you are loved and you are worthy, love yourself more.

#selflove #stopselfharm #i am worthy #beatcyberbullying #advocacy

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