Joyce Fegan: Will we learn anything from Caroline Flack's death?

People need to realise that online actions have real-world consequences

Caroline Flack, whose mother has said that comments on social media platforms had a big impact on her daughter. Picture: Matt Crossick/PA Wire

Social media was never designed with women's empowerment, expression or safety in mind.

Facemash, Mark Zuckerberg's pre-Facebook venture, had users put up pictures of two women and decide which one was the more attractive of the two.