Ask.fm seems to be the root cause for quite a few adolescent kids to commit suicide. Another girl has committed suicide recently over it and her dad wants the site completely banned. However, I'm opposed to this.
On the site itself, it tells you what to do if you get abusive messages and that they can get law involved in certain cases. You also have the chance to deter bullies by setting your account to not allow any anonymous questions, meaning the bullying would almost completely stop. Oh, and you also have the opportunity to delete your account altogether. This is where I get confused. There are so many ways to avoid the bullying, but these kids just never do it and continue adding fuel to the fire, until it gets to them so much, they turn to suicide.
I personally enjoy the site and I have more positive questions than negative (but when they get negative, they can get very abusive) but I brush it off and ignore them. In that case, I use the site wisely whereas these 14-16 year olds seem to be too naive to control it well. All they need to do is make some kind of minimum age limit and educate people on using the site wisely. They should be warned that if they can't take the odd abusive message every now and again, they shouldn't use the site. There's just so many things these kids could have done to stop it, the site even tells you how too and so many precautions that could be done so everyone can enjoy ask.fm more, instead of just banning it because of the odd teenager who can't handle it.
What do you think?
On the site itself, it tells you what to do if you get abusive messages and that they can get law involved in certain cases. You also have the chance to deter bullies by setting your account to not allow any anonymous questions, meaning the bullying would almost completely stop. Oh, and you also have the opportunity to delete your account altogether. This is where I get confused. There are so many ways to avoid the bullying, but these kids just never do it and continue adding fuel to the fire, until it gets to them so much, they turn to suicide.
I personally enjoy the site and I have more positive questions than negative (but when they get negative, they can get very abusive) but I brush it off and ignore them. In that case, I use the site wisely whereas these 14-16 year olds seem to be too naive to control it well. All they need to do is make some kind of minimum age limit and educate people on using the site wisely. They should be warned that if they can't take the odd abusive message every now and again, they shouldn't use the site. There's just so many things these kids could have done to stop it, the site even tells you how too and so many precautions that could be done so everyone can enjoy ask.fm more, instead of just banning it because of the odd teenager who can't handle it.
What do you think?