Max Joseph Quotes

Someone had my number and they started text-stalking me. I've never replied to them. It was tempting to write back, but I resisted.

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.'

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.

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.

I don't want to be followed by random men I don't know. It can also be hard to deal with other kids who are jealous or mean. I can't post a picture on Instagram without being criticized.

There's some weirdos out there, a few stalker fans out there, but nothing I can't handle. People are just going out of their way to hunt down information and get a hold of me. People call obsessively or things like that.

I definitely hope women know that abuse/harassment/blackmail on social media is also a crime, and the police definitely help.

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.

The Internet can be used to hurt many people.

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 am now one of those people for whom the trolling never ends.

Before the Internet, bullying ended when you withdrew from whatever environment you were in. But now, the bullying dynamic is harder to contain and harder to ignore.

I receive more threats than I could count; it's almost every week.

I get apologies from Gamergaters pretty regularly saying: 'I didn't think you were a real person.'

I do have some viewers who know where I live, and they'll stand outside.

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.

One lady wrote me and told me how she wants to see me get beat up and near death and that kind of stuff.

Stop threatening to kill people on Twitter because you don't like what they are saying!

I've had death threats, if you can imagine.

My fans are all pretty cool, you know; I've never really seen anybody fighting on Twitter, no death threats, no harsh language, no gay slurs, nothing like that.

There were websites erected to figure out how to kill Alanis. I just do not need to see this; it's not good for anybody.

I am all for cracking down on inappropriate digital behaviour. Too often the connected world is an excuse for some coward hiding behind a keyboard to bully someone else.

Throughout my career, my family and I have fallen victim to inappropriate attempts to contact me by several unknown individuals.

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.