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Originally Posted by Oliver_W
People who take their own lives don't do it purely because they read unkind words in their notification tab.
The mental ill-health which leads to suicide could have any number of triggers, and if it wasn't the "abuse", it would be something else.
Again, I'm not excusing when people send mean words, but it would never be just that.
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The fact is it is abuse. If someone says something about a person's race, its racial abuse etc etc.
The literal definition of the word abuse is "to use (something) to bad effect or for a bad purpose". The something in the case of online abuse is words
You may be thick skinned to not have words affect you....some people however take those things to heart, especially when it is repeated and constant.
As Ben said, you don't reach 18 and then a switch in your brain happens and suddenly you stop feeling