Social networking site linked to cyberbullying, suicides

More Canadian youthare using a new social networking website flagged byCybertip as a source of cyberbullying andlinked to a handful of teen suicides.

The website, Ask.fm, is popular around the world with nearly 57 million usersbut Cybertip.ca, Canada's national tipline for reporting online sexual exploitation of children, has already received about a dozen complaints from parents.

Unlike Facebook and Twitter,which provide privacy setting options,Ask.fm profiles are public and people can ask questions anonymously.

Skye Spence, 17, tried the site out for a month but didn't like the negativity on it.

"Itwas alright for the first few weeks and then soon enough people started to progress and ask me questions, whether I was a virgin and asking personal questions," he said.

"I'm an aboriginal person so I've [also] been asked, you know, why am I such a dirty native."