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)

据美联社报道，在YouTube网站上的一段视频中，一名少女问道：“我是漂亮还是丑？”少男少女们在互联网上发布的此类视频有数百段之多，这引起了公众的广泛批评。

该视频发布于2010年12月17日，至今观看人次已超过400万，匿名评论达10.7万余条，其中很多是恶意的。

这些视频的数量在300至1000条之间。一些儿童心理学专家和网络安全专家关心的是，它们是否代表了一种新的痛苦潮流，而非简单的反省或寻求肯定和关注。

佩斯大学的艾米丽·札斯洛表示，当互联网成为人们的日记本，并有全球人关注的时候，“在这场文化变革中，公开提出‘我丑吗？’这类以往很私人的问题，是可以理解的。”