Riley Curry, a 29-year-old ex-football player, talks about abuse meant for Steph Curry's daughter

[cyberswede]

Riley Curry isn’t very active on Twitter. The 29-year-old home inspector, who lives in Nashville, will check his account every day, but only to get the news. He doesn’t follow many people, nor does he have that many followers, and he hardly ever uses the service to interact with others.

But his experience with the platform changed entirely, he says, when strangers started thinking his Twitter handle belonged to Golden State Warriors star Steph Curry’s 3-year-old daughter, also named Riley Curry.

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But then things took a turn.

“Since then it’s been stuff like, ‘You should tell your parents to kill themselves,'” Curry said. “All this stuff that is just awful. The problem isn’t about me being bothered or offended or getting my feelings hurt. It’s the fact that on social media, people say whatever they want without there being any accountability or consequences. People say these awful things potentially to a three-year-old little girl. It’s alarming and kind of sad.”

This past week was particularly bad. Because before and during Game 7 of the NBA Finals, when Steph Curry’s Warriors and LeBron James’ Cavaliers faced off in an epic match-up, people once again sent the 29-year-old Riley Curry terrible things meant for a three-year-old by the same name.

the rest: http://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/06/29-year-old-riley-curry-stephen-curry-daughter-football-player-talks-abuse

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Ugh.

[villager]

1. Cleveland folks keeping it classy. nt

[kairos12]

2. Some people are just vile.