Alexa Vega Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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'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.

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

Twitter brings out the best in the keyboard bullies.

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.

I am being savagely bullied online.

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

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

Online bullying has to stop.

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

Any sort of bullying is a terrible thing, but I think online bullying is so much worse because it's psychological bullying.

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

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 a huge advocate for anti-bullying in our youth. What I have seen with the rise of social media is that children are not facing bullying on a playground, they are facing it on their cell phones.

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.'

I had seen a lot of bullying on social media. If this is happening to me, who only a few people are paying attention to, what happens to somebody who is on a bigger scale?

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