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)

據美聯社報道，在YouTube網站上的一段視頻中，一名少女問道：“我是漂亮還是丑？”少男少女們在互聯網上發布的此類視頻有數百段之多，這引起了公眾的廣泛批評。

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

這些視頻的數量在300至1000條之間。一些兒童心理學專家和網絡安全專家關心的是，它們是否代表了一種新的痛苦潮流，而非簡單的反省或尋求肯定和關注。

佩斯大學的艾米麗·札斯洛表示，當互聯網成為人們的日記本，并有全球人關注的時候，“在這場文化變革中，公開提出‘我丑嗎？’這類以往很私人的問題，是可以理解的。”