TORONTO -- Model and actress Hailey Baldwin Bieber has posted a call for a kinder internet in the new year, calling social media 鈥渁 breeding ground for cruelty.鈥�
Baldwin, who recently married Canadian popstar Justin Bieber, of blue sky and ocean on her Instagram on Friday. But accompanying the picture-perfect vista was a caption lamenting the way people interact with each other online.
鈥淏ecause people don鈥檛 take the time to connect with each other on an honest level before they resort to hatred, it starts to damage what could be really beautiful human interaction and connection,鈥� she wrote in the post.
She opened up further about vitriol she said she has received on social media.
鈥溌槎褂笆� FLASH: it hurts to be torn apart on the internet!!! It hurts to be compared to other human beings every single day, it hurts for people to jump to conclusions and make assumptions. It hurts to be called names, and to feel like you don鈥檛 measure up to a certain standard.鈥�
Baldwin, 23, and Bieber, 25, tied the knot this past September. While some fans have been supportive of the couple, they鈥檝e faced criticism from those who felt the marriage was premature.
The model said in her post that she loves 鈥渃onnecting with other people,鈥� and that she is hurt by online comments because she works to stay open to positive emotions.
鈥淚 share this only because it weighs often on my heart and because it鈥檚 important to be honest about how these things affect us mentally and emotionally,鈥� she wrote in her conclusion. 鈥淗opefully it speaks to someone struggling with the same.
鈥淲ith that being said Happy New Year. Let鈥檚 connect more in 2020.鈥�
As of Saturday afternoon, her post had already received over 530 thousand likes.
