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originally posted in:TFS The Floods Sanctuary
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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