Bill O'Reilly Quotes

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

It is so easy to sit behind a screen and create an account that spreads hate.

Online hate needs to be taken as seriously as offline hate - but it isn't.

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.

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

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

While my season of 'The Bachelorette' was airing, people would call me awful, awful names. They'd question my integrity and character.

Firing insults anonymously behind the keys of a message board, slandering other people's beliefs or opinions, this happens on a daily basis in my comment section or on my feed. Cyber-bullying and, further, online social ignorance, is a very real problem, typically without any real consequence.

It might be easy to brush away the febrile atmosphere online as a nasty byproduct of free expression: it's less easy when it happens to you.

Games don't cause racism. But the real-time chat makes nasty comments hard to moderate and easy to spread.

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.

The abuse on Twitter has become so commonplace and accepted that people have literally made careers out of it.

I try not to read the Internet because it's mostly just a sea of hatred.

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

The fact that there's all these really messed-up people on the Internet is not a statement about the Internet. It is a statement about those people and what they do, and we need to basically say that you guys are doing something unacceptable and not generalise it into a comment about 'this is what's happening to the blogosphere.'

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

The Internet is a bastion of negativity, and we get to sit there and voice our cute, little, important opinions.

I have received nasty e-mails, messages on Twitter and ridiculous comments, not only about my size, but my family.

Online bullying has to stop.

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

There's a lot of talk about people being abused on Twitter, women being savagely insulted and degraded. I think, 'Why get into that in the first place?' If I jump into a garbage bin, I can't complain that I've got rubbish all over me.

The good and bad thing about online trolling: it's not on the street, and it's not on the street! The good: nothing physical erupts; the bad: there are no brakes to stop it.

Maybe for every 100 fans who thought about saying something nasty to singer Justin Bieber this month, maybe 200 did.

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.