Cyber Abuse Quotes

AOL Instant Messenger was a big thing back in the day, where girls would get on it and make fun of me. There was a certain girl, and she wanted to make me feel bad.

Every morning, I take a deep breath and then go online to discover what new insult or smear has been thrown in my direction. Whether it's tweets, blogposts or comment threads, the abuse is as relentless as it is vicious.

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

The Internet bullies are awful.

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.

It's easy to get spiraled into our phones, the computer screens and read these comments about yourself in the comment sections of photos or articles. And definitely in the modeling world, it's heightened. The trolls come through even more. It can be super hard.

Digital power is every bit as likely to be abused as physical power, but is often more insidious because it is often wielded in the background until its results manifest themselves in the offline world.

Every day online, people, especially young people who are not developmentally equipped to handle this, are so abused and humiliated that they can't imagine living to the next day, and some tragically don't. And there's nothing virtual about that.

When a match doesn't go your way, people tend to take to social media and just say very inappropriate things.

I have experienced a lot of online bullying because I am homeschooled.

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.

I get cyber-bullied all of the time. Everybody has something negative to say. It is so hurtful. So I think that it is really important for kids to know how to deal with it correctly because it can be a really dangerous situation.

As much as I love make-up and the creativity behind this, the Internet can be a horrible place, and sometimes, with so much negativity and hate, it's hard.

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

Twitter is an open forum and it brings the meanness in people. It shouldn't be taken seriously as at times it's a sadistic thing.

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.

The amount of gender violence that I experience is absolutely extraordinary. And a significant part of my day today will be spent filing police reports at home about gender violence that's directed at me in social media.

Online bullying has to stop.

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.