So the event is called With Open Arms or WOA (pronounced 'WOAH') it's all about raising awareness of suicide and self harm. I've had someone I was friends with commit suicide and it hit close to home for me. So when I started actually looking into things I've realised how often it happens! Suicide and Self Harm in teenagers! It makes you wonder and you can't help but to feel for their parents, friends and families that they have left behind because they have committed suicide. It made me start to wonder what started it all, my mum has been sending me articles she finds in the news and what not and she mentioned trolls not knowing what they were as it's not well explained...
SO for those who don't know here is the term for TROLLS in the online community.
In Internet slang, a troll is someone who posts inflammatory,[2] extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room, or blog, with the primary intent of provoking readers into an emotional response[3] or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.
I've discovered that the platform Tumblr is the main source where there are people who are self harming or suicidal. They blog and post images on this page, they're calling out for help and support because they don't know who else to turn to and instead they are hit with brutal anonymous comments telling them how horrible they are, how ugly they are, how they should just kill themselves and be done with it. I am honestly completely disgusted and it makes me scared to think that my own daughter will be growing up in a world with such brutality.
The main person that has brought my attention to this is the recently deceased Olivia Penpraze who was just 19 years old, who posted on Tumblr about how she was feeling only to be confronted with hate and brutal anonymous comments which were still coming through after her death! You can read more about it all here. There is this post also, as well as Olivia's Video. It's so sad to know that someone has taken their life; cyber bullying being one of the reasons and I'm sure there's much more..
RIP Olivia and all of those who have taken their lives hopefully we can raise awareness to the youth of my area with our With Open Arms event to be held in May this year!
♥ Lor ♪♫♪
