Italian teenage social media suicide sparks calls for cyberbullying debate

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Many of us use social media to vent our disappointments, but when one 14-year-old Italian girl lamented the loss of her boyfriend on Ask.fm, she was bombarded with abuse so bad she took her life. Now Italian MPs are calling for a parliamentary debate on cyberbullying, while others are calling for Ask, which has been in similar trouble before, to be shut down.