Recently I read a news article on Facebook and in the comments section, a man had made a very derogatory statement about Muslims. There was a slew of rebuttals to his comment and although I didn't personally comment, I did 'like' one of the rebuttals. I wasn't the only person who liked the post, it was already at about 30 when I clicked.
My phone alerted me that someone I don't know has commented on one of my public posts. Everything on my profile is set to private but that one post was public because I was sharing it and told friends to share it.
It was the man who had made the derogatory Muslim comment on the news article. He called a Dirty Muslim
**** and 20 minutes later commented a bunch more ignorant things. He'd also sent a half a dozen instant messages calling me many different things.
Keep in mind, I didn't even respond to him, I was only one of 30 people who liked a post which questioned his stupid comment. If he's doing that to me, I wonder what he's doing to the people who really
**** him off.
I blocked him and end of story. It's easy for me to do given my less than provocative existence on Facebook but I got a little taste of the level of crazy that's out there.
Facebook users should not have to monitor their page 24/7 blocking abusers. In my opinion, Facebook should've suspended the abusers and then she wouldn't have had to resort to taking screen shots. Now they're blaming her for taking actions into her own hands when they failed to do their job (reminds me on another forum, ahem).
Asking people being bullied to just ignore things and block everyone and be vigilante 24/7 is not a feasible solution. If they don't help, people have no choice but to leave Facebook and the bullies' tactics work.
Facebook should absolutely be helping in preventing online abuse.
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