A video posted on YouTube by a young girl asking "Am I pretty or ugly?" is among hundreds of similar such videos posted on the Internet by both boys and girls which have drawn widespread public criticism, AP reported.

The video, posted Dec. 17, 2010, has more than four million views and more than 107,000 anonymous, often hateful responses.

Some experts in child psychology and online safety wonder whether the videos, numbering from 300 to 1,000, represent a new wave of distress rather than simple self-questioning or pleas for affirmation or attention.

Emilie Zaslow of Pace University said that when the Internet is your diary and your audience is global, "the public posting of questions such as 'Am I ugly?' which might previously have been personal makes sense within this shift in culture."

(China.org.cn March 5, 2012)

據(jù)美聯(lián)社報(bào)道，在YouTube網(wǎng)站上的一段視頻中，一名少女問道：“我是漂亮還是丑？”少男少女們?cè)诨ヂ?lián)網(wǎng)上發(fā)布的此類視頻有數(shù)百段之多，這引起了公眾的廣泛批評(píng)。

該視頻發(fā)布于2010年12月17日，至今觀看人次已超過400萬，匿名評(píng)論達(dá)10.7萬余條，其中很多是惡意的。

這些視頻的數(shù)量在300至1000條之間。一些兒童心理學(xué)專家和網(wǎng)絡(luò)安全專家關(guān)心的是，它們是否代表了一種新的痛苦潮流，而非簡(jiǎn)單的反省或?qū)で罂隙ê完P(guān)注。

佩斯大學(xué)的艾米麗·札斯洛表示，當(dāng)互聯(lián)網(wǎng)成為人們的日記本，并有全球人關(guān)注的時(shí)候，“在這場(chǎng)文化變革中，公開提出‘我丑嗎？’這類以往很私人的問題，是可以理解的。”