Willow Bay Quotes

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.

Trolls online are constantly giving you sexist comments.

Online abuse has been a problem since the earliest days of the web.

I definitely deserve to be trolled.

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

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.

My name is Brian and I am a troll. An internet troll.

I believe social media gives away a lot to people. I got this impression long time back when my friend was on Twitter, and he got trolled because he posted his opinion about something. He was very upset about it, as he didn't expect that people will reply in such a nasty way.

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

Having social media does open you up to trolling, and mine is always about my skin.

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.

I'm very heavily trolled, but one learns to ignore such thing.

I am now one of those people for whom the trolling never ends.

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 think the thing that bothers me is that there's a component of the Internet where people can write really nasty things anonymously.

I never really had experienced hate in school with girls and boys. What I do experience is social media, and so every day, people comment, 'You're fat, you're ugly, you're rude, you're all this stuff,' and I just don't like it at all. I don't want anyone to have to go through that.

I have been on the Internet for a long time and have always gotten hate on the Internet, so there is a thick skin I have developed.

I want to use the best technology we have at our disposal to begin to take on trolling and other nefarious tactics that give hostile voices disproportionate weight. To do everything we can to level the playing field.

That's what Twitter is: a very negative place.

A man might actually brush off vulgar tweets that come to him. Women are likely to be affected by it.

The chances of me getting trolled are very high because of the films I do. But I only read the good things.

People feel they can say nasty things and have anonymity behind the net - as they did with all the nasty comments about me - without fear of recrimination.

People feel emboldened to say things on the Internet they wouldn't in person.

Any journalist who asked critical questions, anyone on social media who questioned about the extrajudicial killings was bombarded with abuse, threats of violence death threats from trolls and bots and these fake Facebook accounts.

Twitter brings out the best in the keyboard bullies.