for AskFM users

[Shinyshark]

If you use AskFM, I highly recommend you stop using it unless you have a real good reason to actually use it. If you, for whatever reason, want to keep using it I would highly recommend to disable anonymous questions.

My AskFM after reactivation.

It's just not worth it. People say the meanest things to you. I'm not even popular on AskFM and I got this. Who did it? I don't know. I don't care either, if I could find out who did it it would be nice.

Please, safe yourself from this crap.

 

[Illusionist]

You say you don't care but then you post this post? lol

 

[Shinyshark]

You say you don't care but then you post this post? lol

Because I am warning people who want to use AskFM about its dangers.

 

[RaizzanX]

Sigh...cyber bullies. Being a victim of one...

 

[Wimali]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/a-ninth-teenager-since-last-september-has-committed-suicide
http://www.businessinsider.com/askfm-and-teen-suicides-2013-9
http://www.businessweek.com/article...s-teen-suicide-case-and-the-anonymity-problem
http://www.today.com/tech/parents-raise-concerns-over-social-network-ask-fm-8C11542385
http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/scienc...riticized-for-fostering-bullying-bad-behavior

 

[Notme]

Ask.fm is being 4chan I see...

 

[Wimali]

Ask.fm is being 4chan I see...

I disagree with you on that. Most people on ask.fm are teenage girls. People on 4chan are often male, used to seeing weird shit and don't bully or commit suicide as soon as teenage girls would. Someone livestreamed a suicide attempt once on 4chan, but afaik no one ever commited suicide or became depressed because of some anonymous comments.

 

[Danni122112]

I thought this pretty much already was common knowledge?

 

[Notme]

Ask.fm is being 4chan I see...

I disagree with you on that. Most people on ask.fm are teenage girls. People on 4chan are often male, used to seeing weird shit and don't bully or commit suicide as soon as teenage girls would. Someone livestreamed a suicide attempt once on 4chan, but afaik no one ever commited suicide or became depressed because of some anonymous comments.

I meant total anonymity/being evil in general.

BTW I checked my ask.fm account (that I made for Blocktopia for lulz cuz it was trendy) and no evil hatemail was here, only 4 normal questions (lol I didn't logged here for month).

 

[Suikae]

When will people understand that what they say can and will hurt? Also the seriousness of the issue and how bad it can become. smh.

 

[Shinyshark]

When will people understand that what they say can and will hurt? Also the seriousness of the issue and how bad it can become. smh.

I'm fairly sure that all the anonymous 'questions' aimed at me were meant to hurt me. In my opinion, AskFM just isn't worth the hassle. If you really want to use it, turn off anonymous questions.

 

[SalientGorilla]

Just tell them to fuck off.

 

[Da Jinks]

When will people understand that what they say can and will hurt? Also the seriousness of the issue and how bad it can become.

You would be surprised how many people understand this when they say the stuff. People are idiots.

 

[OgroovysamO]

Exactly why I don't use it. I don't need randomers asking me stuff, especially if they have the ability to write stuff like that anonymously. If you want to ask someone something, try saying to their face?

 

[Prizyms]

Ask.fm is being 4chan I see...

ask.fm does not resemble 4chan in any way.

 

[Toiletprincess]

It's not the website that's the problem, its the people using it. I think it'd probably make more sense to tell the people who are being hateful to Man up And tell the person what the hell your problem is with them rather then hiding behind an anon button and posting hurtful comments on their profiles.

 

[Zelz]

tbh i just make a joke out of everything they say
it's actually amusing if i'm honest.

 

[Shinyshark]

tbh i just make a joke out of everything they say
it's actually amusing if i'm honest.

Some take it better than others, I feel really down when someone tells me to kill myself because I wonder why they'd say it.

 

[Zelz]

Some take it better than others, I feel really down when someone tells me to kill myself because I wonder why they'd say it.

oh, i feel down at first, don't get me wrong, but then my inner zel pops up and is like what chu feelin down fo' gurl you gotta kick their butt.

 

[Wimali]

Just tell them to fuck off.

That would only cause more trouble.

It's not the website that's the problem, its the people using it. I think it'd probably make more sense to tell the people who are being hateful to Man up And tell the person what the hell your problem is with them rather then hiding behind an anon button and posting hurtful comments on their profiles.

I disagree, sure, it's the people being idiots here, but that doesn't mean you should make it extremely easy for them to do stuff like this. You can confront whoever is being like this, and sure, sometimes it'll work, but most of the times it doesn't. Some people are just jerks, and will stay like that for the rest of their lives. Some people are immature enough to say stuff like this anonymously, and if they do it now, there's nothing you can do about it, they won't suddenly change after a discussion, the kind of people who do this are too stupid/stubborn for that.

 

[Hunter]

http://www.businessweek.com/article...s-teen-suicide-case-and-the-anonymity-problem

The Sunday Times, a British newspaper, cited a source saying that when Ask.fm tracked the deceased teenager’s abusers back to their IP addresses, 98 percent of the messages came from her own computer—meaning she was allegedly sending hostile notes to herself.

 

[Duffie]

One thing that helps is disabling Stream posts, so they don't end up open for everyone to see publicly.

I've never gotten anything bad, but I disabled anon anyway, just in case.

Sorry you had to deal with that, Shiny. First I saw Zel dealing with it, then you... What's wrong with the internet and anonymity? It's like they want the government to take over and put more rules on it. ;~;

 

[Shinyshark]

One thing that helps is disabling Stream posts, so they don't end up open for everyone to see publicly.

I've never gotten anything bad, but I disabled anon anyway, just in case.

Sorry you had to deal with that, Shiny. First I saw Zel dealing with it, then you... What's wrong with the internet and anonymity? It's like they want the government to take over and put more rules on it. ;~;

The goverment isn't responsible for what you do on the internet. I turned off anonymous questions and that should be that. I never got any nice questions anyway, just people telling me to kill myself. I might as well quit with it, I can understand why some people decide to keep anonymous questions on because some questions can only be asked if you don't know who did it, but to me it's more bad than good.

 

[Duffie]

The goverment isn't responsible for what you do on the internet.

Yes yes yes, I agree, but that's not the point I was trying to make.

The US government has been on the case of gaining control of the internet for quite some time now. I'm just saying, the more hurt you cause to the general public, the more the general public will side with the US government in terms of letting them get rid of this pain.

I never got any nice questions anyway, just people telling me to kill myself. I might as well quit with it, I can understand why some people decide to keep anonymous questions on because some questions can only be asked if you don't know who did it, but to me it's more bad than good.

As for you getting just hurtful comments... I'm very sorry you had to deal with that.

I can't say I ever experienced something like that, and I'm sure you wouldn't want anyone else to experience it, but... I hope you can get over it. And I mean that in the nicest way possible, mainly because I can't think of any way else to say it nicer. <3

I also believe that if you turn off streaming, under settings and privacy;

You'll get a much, much better set of questions, specifically from those who follow you.

If you keep getting the hateful ones, well... They're some dedicated sons of beaches, aren't they? They're not worth your time. <3

 

[Superchops]

I wonder if Formspring suffers from the same problem. Anyone had this experience on Formspring?