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Chats with strangers online may not be worth risk: Experts
The university chatbot service on Telegram created by Mr Aalden Tnay has more than 43,000 active users. PHOTO: REUTERS
Young people are using bots to match themselves with other anonymous users, hoping to make friends
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She simply wanted to make new friends and get to know other university students like herself anonymously on Telegram.
However, her first chat was with a male user who suggested that they exchange explicit pictures or engage in phone sex.
Ms Belinda Au, 20, was using a university chatbot service that matches two online users through an algorithm.
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Local actress Julie Tan, 28, took to TikTok to speak about her ongoing battle with self-harm and the state of her mental health.
In the 45-second clip posted last Saturday (Feb 20), she opened up while doing a make-up tutorial, visibly distraught at certain points. Whenever I am feeling depressed, there are voices in my head telling me I deserve to be punished, she wrote in the video s text overlay. So I would punish myself, I would bite my arms and slap myself. When I was younger, I used to cut myself, but due to work now, I can t afford to have scars.
Beneath Julie Tan's bright smiles and cheerful demeanour lies "tons of negative and ugly thoughts". The local actress opened up about her mental state in a 45-second clip posted on video-sharing service TikTok last Saturday, revealing her history of self-harm and ongoing struggle to love herself. It took the format of a make-up tutorial video with text overlay. Tan, 28,.
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