Maria Konnikova Quotes

I am being savagely bullied online.

The Internet has become a tool to pick on people and ruin someone's life. I don't think parents realize what's going on. Just because you're not at school doesn't mean kids aren't harassing you on the computer.

When I was in high school, I got bullied through social media - on the Internet, on my Facebook. That was hard for me, and I think social media has made it easy for people to bully other people on-line because they can just post anything they want anonymously.

I have countless fake accounts on social media sending me hate and it's hard to discern how many people are actually involved.

I've experienced cyberbullying my entire life due to just having a last name that people knew.

I'm so old... when I was a kid, in order for someone to bully, they had to be bigger and stronger and more intimidating than the people they were bullying. Now with social media and Facebook and Twitter and all those other things, anyone can bully somebody.

Don't get me wrong: I love social websites like Facebook and Twitter, but I think it creates way too many opportunities for young people to bully.

There's so much bullying, and there's so much negativity on social media.

The Internet bullies are awful.

I think the Internet has given rise to voices that want to attack others.

I've had particularly unpleasant stuff, and it has been reported that I've had death threats. Twitter and Facebook give people who have always been out there a platform from which to hurl abuse, and all I can do is try to block it out and remind myself that tweets are transient and get lost in the ether after a few moments.

I think that social media has really empowered bullies because you get to do it from the comfort of your own home, completely anonymously, with no ramifications.

With cyberbullying, one press of a finger on an electronic device can shatter someone's reputation and what they think is their entire life. It's scary.

A big barrier to people getting help with online harassment is the general attitude either that it's not a real issue - that it's 'only' online - or that it's limited to someone saying they don't like you, and all of that stems from a basic misunderstanding of what we mean when we say 'online harassment.'

We always talk about bullying, bullies; that is what social media is. It's just people we gave a voice to who didn't deserve to have a voice.

You don't need to go far to see the hatred and abuse that happens online. Even using social media is anti-social because people are always on their phones.

At my age I can handle people writing junk about me on social media, but I sometimes air "mean tweets" on my show to highlight how destructive this meanness and bullying is to young people. I know how devastating it is for a young person to be the victim of such ugliness.

There are people I've blocked for a long time who will still respond to every single person that replies positively to me on Twitter. I have quite a few cyber-stalkers like that.

You should see some of the things people tweet me. There have been death wishes on my Twitter timeline.

Unless and until our society recognizes cyber bullying for what it is, the suffering of thousands of silent victims will continue.

With every social media, there's hate and things like that.

Online bullying has to stop.

Cyber bullies can hide behind a mask of anonymity online, and do not need direct physical access to their victims to do unimaginable harm.

There's a reason why bullying takes such a strong form online. People don't have to push back as much as they would in real life.

I look at my Twitter feed sometimes, and there's just people tearing apart other performers.