Online harm is an online act that can harm someone physically or mentally. Lavis & Winter (2020) believed online harm might come from harmful online information. It is possible that online self-harm content “leads to self-harm and contributes to suicide”. Online harms are associated with depression, anxiety, self-harm and suicide, and self-harm is a major public health problem.
Reference
Lavis, & Winter, R. (2020). Online harms or benefits? An ethnographic analysis of the positives and negatives of peer‐support around self‐harm on social media. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 61(8), 842–854.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13245
