Peter Hook Quotes

Twitter brings out the best in the keyboard bullies.

If you've spent any time on social media, you may have had the misfortune of coming up against a cowardly troll who hides behind a Twitter handle or Facebook page to criticize or attack you for any number of grievances, real or perceived.

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

I get sick pleasure out of going on the Internet and reading about how much people hate me.

Anyone who has been the victim of the social-media furies knows just how distorting and dishonest those furies can be.

An anonymous person, which is 99 percent of the people on Twitter, can say my face looks like a foot or I'm Ted Cruz's doppelganger. That doesn't affect me.

I feel everybody gets trolled. There is no one who hasn't got trolled on social media. I guess trolling has become norm of social media where people enjoy belittling everybody.

I think that social media has really empowered bullies because you get to do it from the comfort of your own home, completely anonymously, with no ramifications.

In social networking sites, individuals hide their identities and indulge in individual attack on celebrities and others. It's a wrong kind of politics.

It would be hard to go to your neighbor and say the things people say on the Internet without getting punched out or having your tires slashed.

Anyone can go online and write anything they want about people they don't even know, and most of the time, that is fueled by hate. The sad part is that people actually believe what they read online.

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.

In the days when I used to tweet, I would encounter comments wishing death upon me. There were people who claimed they were sticking pins in my effigy because they couldn't stand me. There's some seriously disturbed people out there.

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.

For the past two years, the only thing the 'Idol' machine has been doing has been maliciously attacking my name.

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.

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

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

I never, ever read the comments below an article on the Web. People are mean. I'm a human being.

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.

The internet is the realm of the coward. These are all people who are all sound and no fury.

It is a horrible feeling to have people bashing you online.

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

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