Dear #Auntienet, Am a 17 year old girl doing her grade 11 in Pretoria. Am writing to you because am experiencing some problems on twitter. I keep being followed by people I don’t know and most of these people have questionable accounts. By this I mean that the accounts have tweets with ‘bad’ things. Every time I receive such, I unblock but I want to know if there [...]

Hi Agony Aunt My name is Thembi and I live in Soweto. I have a huge problem, There are these two grade 12 boys at my school that have started bullying my friend and I on Facebook. It all started as very innocent, they wanted to be our friends and we accepted them but now they keep asking us for nudes and when we refuse, they bully us. [...]

Dear Agony Aunt, I know you mostly receive emails from children but i need help as a parent. My 12 year old daughter has been asking me for a smartphone so she can get on social media ‘like her friends’. She has been asking for it since she turned 12 and now she will turn 13 in a couple of months. i have been skeptical about allowing her [...]

Dear Social Media Agony Aunt, I’d like to stay anonymous if you don’t mind. I am a 14-year-old boy who lives in Johannesburg and I have been on social media for about two years now since I received my phone as a birthday present from my parents. A school mate of mine has been posting very sad messages online recently, some have even seemed suicidal. We are friends [...]

Dear Agony Aunt, I am a 16-year-old from Freestate. I recently opened a social media account which required me to have an email address so before I opened the account, I had to open an email address. The problem is that I recently received an email telling me that my account had been hacked and that I should click on a provided link to verify my details. I [...]