Quotes About Cyberbullying

At Girl Scouts, we are committed to raising awareness about the terrible effects of cyber bullying, and to teaching girls how to recognize the signs of bullying of any sort and extricate themselves or another from a bad situation before it spirals out of control and ends in tragedy.

I don't need to be on any micro-blogging site, because people don't think about what they say there. At times, people abuse, and it is too harsh for me to handle.

In social networking sites, individuals hide their identities and indulge in individual attack on celebrities and others. It's a wrong kind of politics.

Shaming happens every day online, it happens all the time. I can be skinny shamed and fat shamed in the same day.

People like to get bold behind a computer or an iPhone, and say whatever they want. I don't stand for that.

Kids should speak to each other. They're horrid to each other online, they bully each other - they should shut up and stop it. The problem with social media is there is too much freedom. It's too much, too young.

The trolling annoys me, but it doesn't affect me. What I worry about is the young girls on my page who stick up for me and then get abuse themselves.

I've been in gyms before and people have recorded me on their mobile phones and uploaded it on Facebook and said: 'Look at this fat pig,' which has been really traumatic for me to see.

Fortunately I can say that social media has treated me pretty well. I've been exempt from a lot of the mean comments.

Just because someone can sit behind a computer screen and have a different name and hide themselves, they feel like they can do anything to anyone.

Twitter brings out the best in the keyboard bullies.

The Internet is for haters. Everyone wants to knock somebody down, but it's cool.

Beatbullying's 'The Big March 2012' is such a brilliant campaign and I am very proud to be a part of it. I have been a victim of cyber bullying myself and I know firsthand just how hurtful it can be. People think that they can hide behind computers and send nasty and hurtful comments to people, and this is wrong.

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.

I am a huge advocate for anti-bullying in our youth. What I have seen with the rise of social media is that children are not facing bullying on a playground, they are facing it on their cell phones.

Cyberbullying isn't real. But bullying and harassment certainly are real. Trust me, friends, I went to school in England. They've got bullying down to a fine art. I know, because I was one of its chief architects. I was awful to my fellow schoolboys.

People will always have awful things to say because there's a sense of entitlement and safety behind the screen, but trust me, you don't need to be that angry.

People can be too harsh, especially with social media. It brings a person down.

I think that social media has really empowered bullies because you get to do it from the comfort of your own home, completely anonymously, with no ramifications.

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.

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

You think you had it bad when somebody put out a rumor on you in the school; think about somebody putting a rumor out about you on the Internet.

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.

I could go through my Twitter account right now and there would be 10 horrible messages.