Don't get me wrong - I don't want to be mean to the scammers. There are lots of people online who do that. I'm content merely having fun inventing, and I figure any time they're spending with me is time in which they're not scamming vulnerable adults out of their savings.
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?
You have the right to free speech as an American - you have no right to use YouTube to do it. And the mobs that exist can form very quickly if they are offended by your presence there.
I get bullied a lot on social media, and it's terrible.
I never knew how ugly and how stupid I was until, you know, we had Twitter.
I don't want to be followed by random men I don't know. It can also be hard to deal with other kids who are jealous or mean. I can't post a picture on Instagram without being criticized.
I don't think there are many people out there - except, perhaps, the odd Twitter troll who knows no better - who believes that racially abusing people or threatening people is the right way to go.
There are keyboard terrorists everywhere who hide behind a veil of anonymity to pursue their vicious slanders.
People shouting abuse has happened for a very long time, and I find it kind of amusing and irrelevant.
I was told that someone on Facebook said something 'horrible' about me. Who cares? At least they're watching the show.
With my upbringing and where I grew up, people slagged people. If you slagged them, they'd slag you back... I know it pales in comparison to genuine issues that people have got, but I've had people slagging my stuff off on my blog and my website for years.
I wouldn't coach football now for nothing, and it's because of social media. That just bothers the heck out of me. People blast ya and you don't put their name down.
Almost as soon as I came out as trans, there was a spike in online harassment more vicious than anything I'd experienced before. It turns out there are many people who spend a good portion of their spare time making life as miserable as possible for trans people.
Anonymity, in some cases a key civil liberty, also enables society's worst actors.
As you know, I get a lot of abuse on Twitter. And while I'm abroad on training camp, I train three times a day, often for two hours a time, and I haven't got time to respond to all the people that ask questions.
People are scared to have a strong opinion because, with social media, almost everyone lives the life of a celebrity.
I've had to learn not to read all the bad comments, or if you do, try and not take it into your soul, body, brain, and heart.
I think what a lot of women in the game industry saw with Gamergate is they saw if they came forward, help was not going to come.
Twitter is a cesspool but I find I can ignore most of the cess most of the time.
I am not very comfortable with Facebook and Twitter, and that's why I've kept myself away from such things.
I definitely hope women know that abuse/harassment/blackmail on social media is also a crime, and the police definitely help.
I've ended up on some website list or some other list for super right-wing people. They've been tweeting some pretty rude stuff at me, so I think there's a sect of America out there that doesn't like certain opinions and can really take their claws out when they don't like what you're saying.
Calling each other faggots behind the keys of a message board.
If Man United and Liverpool fans feel better by calling me a black monkey in my messages... feel free to carry on if it makes your day better.
I think in the world of Internet trolls, people can shake your confidence really easily, with just one comment. As long as you can stand behind your work, it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks!
