E-safety and your child’s online life

Most adults have never heard of the social media site Ask.fm. It's huge in Europe, and it has about 65 million users. But half of them are under 18 - meaning that the site's active user base consists largely of children. And they're using it to hound each other to death. So far, nine teenagers connected to Ask.fm have committed suicide after receiving scores of hateful anonymous messages on the site. Ask.fm is ostensibly a question and answer site. You sign up, and the system allows you to pose questions that anyone else can answer, or answer questions coming from other users. It also allows you to post anonymous questions. But the format also lets users engage each other in running battles and arguments, and to gang up on each other.

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