Bullying has existed forever. Everyone has dealt with it, and teenagers, regardless of where they are, are dealing with the same stuff growing up.
I was a bully in fifth and sixth grade. I wasn't one of the bullies - I wasn't strong or dominant enough to be one of the kids who bullied everyone in equal measure. I was a bully, in that I bullied a kid, whose name I won't mention here. My bullying was selective and personal.
There is a fair amount of moderation on the site, not only for legal reasons, but for moral ones as well. We look out for bullying and just overall safety for the kids. It is a well-groomed site.
We've got ballots flying around, being counted by hand, arriving by truck and in God knows whose custody.
When you talk about bullying I always go back to when I was at school, a bully was a big kid picking on a little kid.
Slavery was a violent, brutal, immoral system, and in accurately depicting how it worked, you have to include that, obviously. Or else you are lying.
We always talk about bullying, bullies; that is what social media is. It's just people we gave a voice to who didn't deserve to have a voice.
As a child, I just found a lot of things quite difficult. I found school quite overwhelming. There were just too many people. I wish I could have gone to a school with about five people. And if I saw someone bullying someone else, for example - I don't mean because I'm a perfect person, because I'm really not - but I'd always be, 'Well, why?'
If I could have any power, I think flying would definitely be up there! Along with speaking every language.
As a child, I was a victim of bullying because of my cultural background. I didn't look like all the other kids. I had a funny name.