Recently Hannah Smith, 14, has been a victim of cyber bullying on ask.fm and since she hanged herself a few weeks ago major sponsors have pulled out of ask.fm including Specsavers, Vodafone, Laura Ashley and ironically Save the Children.
There have now also been calls from consumers and users demanding that the website is shut down - however would that reduce the amount of cyber bullying? At the end of the day ask.fm is only a window for bullies to use and if the window was closed the bullies would find another window to intimidate people.
This is a contrevertial subjct and Ask.fm says cyber bullying is against their terms of use so anyone who does verablly abuse anyone on the site is breaking the rules. Ask.fm doesn't have any employees moderating the site or blocking key words. Maybe this should be introduced in the near future before another tragic incident happens.