Comments on: Dealing With Personal Attacks On Social Media

By: Red Rabbit

Red Rabbit — Wed, 06 May 2015 19:16:00 +0000

Internet warriors…nice way to say “trolls”!! hahaha. I firmly believe in the ignore and let be model. Seems to work best. Your come back quotes made me laugh though…love it!

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 05:31:00 +0000

I love it. That is normally what I do ignore them. Sometimes I write a quick response saying something like “that is why they invented ignore, unfriend or what ever the case may be”. Then utilize the function for the system. It is great. Thank you for the write up.
Marc

By: Paolo

Paolo — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 05:10:00 +0000

UNfortunately social media contains all kind of people .. idiots included

By: Garen

Garen — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 04:12:00 +0000

In reply to Paolo. The lowest of the lowest bash people on social media!

By: adeem jan

adeem jan — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 21:24:00 +0000

Thanks for this piece, you've clearly given this a lot of thought. However, I do wish that the fact that the majority of abuse women face online is highly sexist, and often very scary . And it would have been great to see some advice for this sort of abuse - something I have recently been researching around - to be mentioned, to make the advice more relevant to the realities of gendered abuse online. Points like 'start an offline conversation' aren't particularly helpful if your attacker has randomly found your profile picture on twitter and decided you are a 'slut [he] wants to rape'. Also advising people to think about 'how they present themselves online' ignores the realities of a lot of abuse that takes place, which is based on your identity (race, gender, disability, sexual orientation, etc) - sure, if I didn't say I was a woman, I may get less abuse, but is that the solution? I do really think there's some useful stuff in here, and it's important not to panic, respond to attackers, etc, but I think that the nature of abuse really varies, and when it's identity based (which is most often is) the issue becomes a lot more complex. Also, relying on social media policies is difficult, particularly when you look at their attitudes towards gender-based abuse. For example, Facebook lets numerous pro-rape pages or rape jokes go unchecked, but censors pictures women consensually put up of themselves. I suppose the point is that while these neutral options do exist, the identities of the people involved at the nature of the attack means that the response to it - personally and by social media - can vary..

By: Garen Arnold

Garen Arnold — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 21:49:00 +0000

In reply to Ryan Biddulph. yep!

By: Ryan Biddulph

Ryan Biddulph — Sun, 08 Jun 2014 08:42:00 +0000

Ignore the low energies and they’ll go away 😉 Thanks!