Comments on: It is not ok, just because you are a man….

By: Kim Carberry

Kim Carberry — Fri, 18 Jan 2019 21:26:17 +0000

I keep getting followed from random men on Twitter. They all claim to be in the army or something like that and I usually block. I get the odd message by randoms on Facebook. Usually it’s just one message and they go away! Phew. Thankfully I’ve had no rude pics sent.
I think if a man sends someone a pic of his willy that he doesn’t know he should get punished the same way as if he flashed his willy at someone in the street! Hiding behind a screen doesn’t make it any different.

By: Michelle Twin Mum

Michelle Twin Mum — Fri, 18 Jan 2019 17:53:24 +0000

I just decline all the invites I get and don’t engage. if you don’t accept they can’t send anything else to you. Crazy that they all things it’s acceptable to try and chat a married woman up though. Mich X

By: Rosie (@greenrosielife)

Rosie (@greenrosielife) — Fri, 18 Jan 2019 16:48:17 +0000

I got the first of these ever just this week, on Twitter. I wasn’t really concentrating and followed back an account I normally would not bother with. Nothing outwardly wrong with it – a few family/friends pictures, nothing environmental (it was on GreenRosieLife) and generally just not very interesting. Happy to have them follow me but I normally don’t follow back these accounts – only this time I wasn’t quite with it and hit follow. A few hours later I got a private message “Hey lovely lady, how are you and where in the world are you?” WTF – that is NOT how you should be using Twitter. I promptly unfollowed him then blocked him, before it had time to escalate. Knowing previously what had happened to you after messages like this I was seriously tempted to send him the type of picture I am sure would have arrived soon enough in my messages but I wasn’t really going to stoop to his level and I am not sure I know anyone who would have supplied the picture! I have reported the account but the options Twitter offer didn’t cover the type of message he’d sent me so I simply said I thought the account was hacked – it may well be. Horrible little man, who-ever he was. He had no right to approach me like this and Twitter needs to tighten up on inappropriate private messaging.