2. The previous reenactment is based off a
realistic event that happened in 2013. A
young teenage girl named Hannah Smith
took her life at age 14 from all of the
hatred that was spread to her through the
social networking site ask.fm.
She’s one of millions that have
seen the darker side of the
internet.
3. But this dark side doesn’t always consist of
bullying as some believe. Besides the
distribution of cruel words, the internet has
slowly become a gateway for teenagers to
search and create a harmful online
lifestyle.
4. Responsible for this online
epidemic of sadness would be all
of the sites you log onto everyday:
Instagram, Twitter, WeHeartIt,
Ask.fm, Facebook, and Tumblr.
All of these social networks have built
up a wall that has given power for
anyone that has an account to do what
they want. Yet what some of these
people are doing is simply crying for
help in one of the most dangerous ways
possible.
5. As some regular Instagram users have
figured out, the popular app’s creators
have blocked numerous hashtags from
showing up on user’s phones in an
attempt to stop anything vulgar or
upsetting from popping up onto your
screen.
6.
7.
8. Images per page x number of pages = how many
images
26
x
10,235
= 266,110
9. Research has proven that 75% of teens
that repeatedly look up pictures of others
cutting themselves or applying other selfharming methods are liable and convinced
to do it themselves.
Without a secure tactic to stop
the ability to see these images,
the rates of self harm and
suicide will go up.
10. The internet is not only offering these
images, but are sending girls like
Hannah Smith over the edge. With
ask.fm’s and Tumblr’s easy
anonymous buttons, hateful words
can be spread from one keyboard to
another. But in Hannah’s case and
many others, the anonymous button
might even be for themselves, to trick
the world into believing they have one
more reason to be sad.
