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Prevent cyber bullying and end the social media page ask.fm

Created by R.S. on April 16, 2015

Nine people all under the age of 18, in the last year and a half alone, have committed suicide. These suicides have been linked to cyber bulling on the social media page ask.fm. Comments including, "no one likes you, " and, "how do you have any friends," were being said to the teenagers who took their own lives.This social media page allows for any person to go on a profile and post a comment anonymously to another profile page. In my home town community, middle school students have been using this social media page to fuel cyber bullying. When I asked community members if they knew of this website, no one had any idea this social media page existed. The same comments that were said to the teenagers who committed suicide are being said to the middle school students in my home town.

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