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"70% of 18-to-24-year-olds who use the Internet had experienced harassment, and 26% of women that age said they’d been stalked online" - Joel Stein

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Trolling hurts people.

Trolling can cause significant negative effects and mental and physical health such as disturbed sleep, depression, low self-esteem, and even self-harm. Trolls have created an environment of online hate that's starting to infect the normal standards of online communication. This is because online trolls flood our feeds with hate and negativity, and when our minds are filled with this, our mental health can be hit hard. Our reputation online tends to mean more to people than real world interactions, which is a recipe for disaster.

It is so easy to troll online because it is done without having to be confronted face to face. However, what we don't realize is that trolling is often an effect of the desire for revenge, attention seeking, or for personal amusement. A person who trolls is one who holds resentment in their own life and feels the need and desire to make others feel down alongside them. Trolls want to lash out at people who are successful, who are happy, who are enjoying their life because they can’t, however, we can’t let them take the positives away from us. The Internet has brought too many ways of communicating negatively SO WE MUST start to reverse the script of this norm and #STOPTROLLING!

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Different forms of online gender-based violence: 

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Many talented women in the journalism field sadly decide to turn away from their online presence because of the hateful Internet feedback and harassment they experience. 

How many talented women dropped out of the blogosphere rather than deal with hateful Internet feedback?

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"70% of 18-to-24-year-olds who use the Internet had experienced harassment, and 26% of women that age said they’d been stalked online"

- Joel Stein

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Online abuse of women has spiraled out of control: It's time to take the global crisis of online hate speech, sexual harassment and threats of violence against women and marginalized groups seriously!