Luciana Berger Quotes

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

With every social media, there's hate and things like that.

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.

Anyone can go online and write anything they want about people they don't even know, and most of the time, that is fueled by hate. The sad part is that people actually believe what they read online.

The Internet has become a hate-filled town square with no limits put on destructive verbal behavior.

I've had particularly unpleasant stuff, and it has been reported that I've had death threats. Twitter and Facebook give people who have always been out there a platform from which to hurl abuse, and all I can do is try to block it out and remind myself that tweets are transient and get lost in the ether after a few moments.

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

I don't like how social media allows people to be so mean and say really hurtful, negative things. It's just not cool.

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.

A big barrier to people getting help with online harassment is the general attitude either that it's not a real issue - that it's 'only' online - or that it's limited to someone saying they don't like you, and all of that stems from a basic misunderstanding of what we mean when we say 'online harassment.'

Twitter has made some improvements on the site and it's important that you can report people - but when you are getting the level of abuse I was, it's an onerous task reporting each and every person.

The struggles of dealing with online harassment is the same harassment that women have been dealing with, it's just a new medium in which it's happening.

To hide behind a computer and an anonymous persona to spew hate at another person is despicable.

There are people I've blocked for a long time who will still respond to every single person that replies positively to me on Twitter. I have quite a few cyber-stalkers like that.

I was kind of loathe to go on social media. I find the trolling unacceptable, and I never wanted to look like I was someone who would accept that.

Online bullying has to stop.

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

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.

Frankly, I don't want to let trolls into my life.

Trolls online are constantly giving you sexist comments.

Using social media to hurt and destroy is callous, acted out by cowards hiding behind computers. My advice is to ignore negativity. Focus on the love around.

I definitely deserve to be trolled.

It is so easy to sit behind a screen and create an account that spreads hate.

I had to turn off my Twitter notifications for a while as I got a small minority of people sending me some abusive tweets.

It might be easy to brush away the febrile atmosphere online as a nasty byproduct of free expression: it's less easy when it happens to you.