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How is this site even around! I am appalled at the personal attacks that take place on that forum! The girls I coach were attacked for having no talent and not knowing how to hit any stunts.

It is just a terrible form of social media and all it does is leave the door wide open for people to be bullied!
 
Just my opinion...girls don't have to get that account. In my opinion if you get an anonymous account like that you are allowing yourself to get bullied. Don't like it? Don't get it. I don't have one and won't get one because that would be asking for the hate. And then people get upset over getting that? Yeah it's HORRIBLE, but maybe you shouldn't have it then. You have to be sick to send that stuff, but people are sick. Especially teenagers.


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Just my opinion...girls don't have to get that account. In my opinion if you get an anonymous account like that you are allowing yourself to get bullied. Don't like it? Don't get it. I don't have one and won't get one because that would be asking for the hate. And then people get upset over getting that? Yeah it's HORRIBLE, but maybe you shouldn't have it then. You have to be sick to send that stuff, but people are sick. Especially teenagers.


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That's the worst part, it's not an account any of my girls have, we are a team in Illinois and its an account calle cheerleaders of Illinois and it talks about all the high school teams!
 
I don't think every ask.fm is like that, yes there will be those occasional bullies and/or weird/gross questions or comments that are being asked to get a reaction or to try and be funny.. I have asked Becca from Cali Aces & Swain plenty of questions and its cool to get answers and opinions from them because they're two people I look up to in and outside of cheer.
But if these girls you're talking about are younger they shouldn't really be on something like ask.fm because people will target younger kids because they know it will get to them.


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I don't think every ask.fm is like that, yes there will be those occasional bullies and/or weird/gross questions or comments that are being asked to get a reaction or to try and be funny.. I have asked Becca from Cali Aces & Swain plenty of questions and its cool to get answers and opinions from them because they're two people I look up to in and outside of cheer.
But if these girls you're talking about are younger they shouldn't really be on something like ask.fm because people will target younger kids because they know it will get to them.

But why can't you ask those questions on some other social media? Why does the questioner need to be any more anonymous than having a screen name?

Ask.fm is the worst social media of all time. I absolutely hate it, but despite any efforts, it continues to grow. They went from 60 million to 70 million users in the last couple of months.
 
I don't think every ask.fm is like that, yes there will be those occasional bullies and/or weird/gross questions or comments that are being asked to get a reaction or to try and be funny.. I have asked Becca from Cali Aces & Swain plenty of questions and its cool to get answers and opinions from them because they're two people I look up to in and outside of cheer.
But if these girls you're talking about are younger they shouldn't really be on something like ask.fm because people will target younger kids because they know it will get to them.


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I do agree with that! I love when the athletes like that have the ask account and I can ask them some questions! I just have a problem when all people get is hate and they continuously flip out about it, but yet not delete the account.


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ok - can someone explain what Ask.fm is? when I googled it - I went straight to a sign up screen.
 
ok - can someone explain what Ask.fm is? when I googled it - I went straight to a sign up screen.


It's an anonymous forum where people can ask you questions or just make remarks about you. It tends to get very nasty since the person leaving the remark is an unknown. It's awful.
 
I don't understand it! People have said SUCH rude and hurtful things to some of my friends... Yet they don't delete the account. Why??????? I had one for about half a second then realized 1, it's dumb and hurtful, and 2, my life isn't interesting enough that people would even ask questions! My friends tell me about what people say to them on there and I'm appalled by it!


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In the UK news recently there was a girl who committed suicide because of the bullying she received on this site. The reactions of the public were that they were horrified, attacking the site and saying it was outrageous.
Whilst I don't agree that the site is the most positive place for a teenager (and I am NOT saying it was 'ok' that she has taken her life) we have to look at the whole picture. She signed up to an a website where people can post anonymous comments about you.
They can say anything they like. She knew exactly what she could possibly be getting into when she signed up. I, and anyone who knows ask.fm, am not surprised in the slightest that mean comments were made.


Yet more and more people continue to sign up. I thought about WHY this is the other day and came to a mini conclusion of my own - is it because the more people 'hate' on a person, the more people they get saying 'Don't listen to them, you're so much better than them. You are gorgeous!' (or to that similar effect depending on the original comment). Maybe people crave the confidence boost.
 
But why can't you ask those questions on some other social media? Why does the questioner need to be any more anonymous than having a screen name?

Ask.fm is the worst social media of all time. I absolutely hate it, but despite any efforts, it continues to grow. They went from 60 million to 70 million users in the last couple of months.

I don't use any other social network other than facebook, I look at twitter for Cheerupdates, but I don't have a twitter. Why should I have to make a twitter that I won't use just to ask questions because some people don't like how ask.fm is? Those things can happen on any site, but it's about .5% less anonymous, but anyone can be behind that username or name that they tell everyone is them. Anonymous or not, nasty comments will be made and if someone isn't mature/old enough to look past those things, they shouldn't be on social media. But that's just my opinion.


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