The app developers claim that they monitor the app, but it is not clear how closely the discussions are being monitored given the number of inappropriate questions posted. In cases like these, bullies anonymously and persistently ask their victims inappropriate and derogatory questions, send hateful messages, or use the app to distribute other users’ personal information, leaving the victims unable to cope. committed suicide after a man distributed nude images of her on the Internet. committed suicide she had informed her Ask.fm persecutors that she was going to commit suicide by saying “u prob think it was funny when a put a rope round my neck cause of yours, you are that sad!” Sadly her older sister committed suicide two months later. In the months leading up to Ciara P.’s suicide she had been called a “slut” and “ugly” by Ask.fm users. was asked “Can you kill yourself already?” with another user commenting, “Nobody even cares about you.” She had also been belittled and ridiculed by app users. The four instances of suicide occurred after users had been being bullied on the app. The app has already been linked to four documented cases of suicide in the United States, Ireland, and Great Britain. Unfortunately, the forum can be used for hateful and salacious discussion. The app was intended to provide a forum for adolescents to share their thoughts and questions in an open environment and freely discuss various topics. Ask.fm also encourages its users to integrate their account with their followers and friends on Twitter and Facebook. Ask.fm is an app for teens, age 13 and older that enables its users to ask other users anonymous questions.
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