Nicola Sturgeon Quotes

I had to turn off my Twitter notifications for a while as I got a small minority of people sending me some abusive tweets.

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.

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

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.

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.

At times, it feels like I'm being cyber bullied.

Twitter brings out the best in the keyboard bullies.

I could go through my Twitter account right now and there would be 10 horrible messages.

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.

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

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

I am being savagely bullied online.

I get bullied a lot on social media, and it's terrible.

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.

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

Online bullying has to stop.

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

The Internet bullies are awful.

Trolls online are constantly giving you sexist comments.

I definitely deserve to be trolled.

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

Unfortunately, I have the equivalent of 7 PhDs in harassment on Twitter. As one of the primary targets of Gamergate, I've had hundreds and hundreds of threats to my life on Twitter's platform.

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.

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.'