Max Joseph Quotes

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.

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 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.

The Internet can be used to hurt many people.

Unfortunately there are some not-so-nice people using social media, and that has proven to be complicated for other actors that I've known.

It's the Internet. I'm sure many people know that it's one of the toughest places to be if you're sensitive.

An Internet 'relationship' doesn't have to be catastrophically harmful to be inappropriate. Hurtful is bad enough.

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

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.

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.

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

AOL Instant Messenger was a big thing back in the day, where girls would get on it and make fun of me. There was a certain girl, and she wanted to make me feel bad.

There is no easy way to get around horrible people on the Internet, and it's either just leave it or don't and get sucked into the whirlwind of it all.

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

We live in a world where people can ridicule you at the push of the button. They can question you at the push of a button.

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

I get to reach out to over a million people ever yday on Twitter and enlighten them with what I feel about cyberbullying, and I - what I think you can do to avoid it, and the places you can visit online that are safe.

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.

Every day, I get five pieces of hate mail: Tweets or hate emails.

Using social media to hurt and destroy is callous, acted out by cowards hiding behind computers. My advice is to ignore negativity. Focus on the love around.

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

Everybody's like, 'Who hurt you? I'm like, 'The Internet.'

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

I was actually cyberstalked twice.