Lauren Mayberry Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Twitter brings out the best in the keyboard bullies.

There are few people I can talk to about the worst parts of what happened during Gamergate.

I am being savagely bullied online.

Social networking sites are an easy way to insult people. People have sent me messages saying that they are praying for me to get injured. Such messages are not nice, because I love playing football: I love playing for my club; I love playing football for Ghana.

Unfortunately, there is a lot of abuse and negativity online.

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.

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.

Online bullying has to stop.

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

There's a reason why bullying takes such a strong form online. People don't have to push back as much as they would in real life.

I look at my Twitter feed sometimes, and there's just people tearing apart other performers.

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

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.

When I post anything at all on Instagram or Twitter, I get hundreds and hundreds of 'shut up' after I say anything. But it's all out of love.