Alexa Bliss issued the following statement on Twitter:
Social media can be an amazing thing. Can be great for marketing your business or brand, keeping in touch with your friends or family and used as a platform for things in your life that you’re very passionate about. Social media is such a powerful tool.
Sometimes too powerful. Social media has allowed people to judge, ridicule, and cyber bully people without any consequence. Social media gives anonymous people the power to spread joy, positivity and love to those who need it. But also gives those anonymous people the power to ruin careers, reputations and even lives.
Cyberbullying has caused hurt on so many people to the point where kids don’t want go to school, and adults don’t want to go to work or show their face in public.
Cyberbullying causes people to shut themselves from their friends and family, delete their accounts and even take their own life. There are people out there who find some kind of enjoyment in ruining other peoples lives. Those people Need to try to touch peoples lives in a positive way.
That tweet, post, or picture that you feel the need to share to make your life feel better, can hurt someone irreversibly.
With how powerful cyber bullying is. Takes just one post to be the final straw to cause someone to feel like They need to their own life. Don’t let that post be yours .”