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The Vamps' James McVey: 'I see girls as young as 13 telling other online to kill themselves'

'Wild Heart' hitmaker James McVey, of The Vamps fame, has opened up about the bad things he sees online on a daily basis and urged his followers to choose a path of love and support instead of one of insecurity and hatred.

Writing on his official Tumblr page earlier today (October 21), the heartthrob explained that he's concerned about the negativity that dominates social media because young people who use it are so impressionable:

"I have come to realise that there are a great many similarities between hate and love. It sounds strange, however every single time I go on Twitter or Instagram I see so many individuals adamant to cause destruction, pain and upset. I see girls as young as 13 telling others to self-harm, even kill themselves. I see people desperate to unpick a person’s stability; they find any shred of insecurity within a person and play on it. I see people who actively seek confrontation - people who can’t accept the fact that people are allowed to like more than one band."

He went onto add that if people have enough energy and drive to be horrid to one another online, they could have the potential to channel this into something positive and uplifting without too much effort:

"I view these people, not with anger, but with sadness; I pity the ignorance that appears to cloak the world of social media. I worry for the innocence of young teenagers who will soon enter this world of deceit and quarrel. I worry for my younger sister, who knows nothing of this hatred. However, what amazes me the most here is that this negative notion could so easily be adjusted into something positive."

"Why do we focus so heavily on the negatives on social media? - why do we argue about bands, hair, songs, girls, boys? This will never result in solitude. Why don’t we use the very same emotions in a constructive way, making something beautiful?"

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