Anna Maria Chavez Quotes

I'm the poster child for cyber bullying. It's hurtful.

Before the Internet, bullying ended when you withdrew from whatever environment you were in. But now, the bullying dynamic is harder to contain and harder to ignore.

With cyberbullying, one press of a finger on an electronic device can shatter someone's reputation and what they think is their entire life. It's scary.

There are few people I can talk to about the worst parts of what happened during Gamergate.

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.

People need to realize bullying has just as much of an impact online because words are so cutting and difficult to deal with.

You should see some of the things people tweet me. There have been death wishes on my Twitter timeline.

When I was in high school, I got bullied through social media - on the Internet, on my Facebook. That was hard for me, and I think social media has made it easy for people to bully other people on-line because they can just post anything they want anonymously.

Cyber bullies can hide behind a mask of anonymity online, and do not need direct physical access to their victims to do unimaginable harm.

I look at my Twitter feed sometimes, and there's just people tearing apart other performers.

There's so much bullying, and there's so much negativity on social media.

The Internet bullies are awful.

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.

I've experienced cyberbullying my entire life due to just having a last name that people knew.

Sometimes online, there are what we call trolls or bullies that want to leave negative comments. That's just because they feel bad about themselves, and they want to spread that.

Twitter brings out the best in the keyboard bullies.

Trolls and cyber bullies have been feeling too safe in the cyber world for too long.

Social networking sites are an easy way to insult people. People have sent me messages saying that they are praying for me to get injured. Such messages are not nice, because I love playing football: I love playing for my club; I love playing football for Ghana.

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

Don't get me wrong: I love social websites like Facebook and Twitter, but I think it creates way too many opportunities for young people to bully.

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.

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

There are different types of bullying; one of the biggest ones out there right now is cyberbullying. I had the privilege of filming an 'Austin & Ally' episode centered on cyberbullying, how it can get out of control, the ups and downs that you feel, and how to deal with it.

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.

Any sort of bullying is a terrible thing, but I think online bullying is so much worse because it's psychological bullying.