Scams and Bullying on Instagram

Make love not hate and frauds

When people start sharing their lives with the Internet audience, they open a valuable part of their hearts and minds, and at the same time become vulnerable. In the past, when Instagram was just born, one of the main issues was cyberbullying. Negative comments, humiliations, underestimating and many more issues were appearing under people’s posts.

The bigger audience, the more success you get... but at the same time, the more hate.

My name is Daria and I know what I am talking about, because I was the victim of bullying back in 2015-2016, when my audience was 26,8k followers. Instagram started protecting its users and the app from bullying, but then another issue appeared, scams, which is still relevant.

I would like to dedicate my blog to the 2, in my opinion, main issues of using social media, especially Instagram, bullying and scams. These problems are popular nowadays and directly influence on people’s mindsets, psyche, trust and self-esteem. I am interested in these topics, because they are relevant to those, whose audience is big, or whose aim is to make Instagram a platform for earning money, for instance. I would like to show the negative, that may appear under the Instagram post and its consequences towards real people, and also prevent users from being fooled, while participating in “giveaways” by giving relevant examples and experts opinions.