Last year, researchers at the Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Centre found that up to 10 per cent of first-year university students had ”falsely posted a cruel remark against themselves, or cyberbullied themselves, during high school”.

And this is not the first time that online ”self-harassment” or ”self-cyberbullying” has been identified and written about. In 2010, Danah Boyd, a leading social media researcher, wrote about an emerging trend she had discovered on Formspring, where teens were ”anonymously” posting vicious questions to themselves, before publicly answering them.

– Nina Funnell

via Digital Self-Harm.