FACEBOOK has defended its ties with website ask.fm which was linked to the suicides of two teenagers.
Schoolgirls Ciara Pugsley, 15, and Erin Gallagher, 13, took their lives after being subjected to abuse on ask.fm.
The Latvian-based site allows users to post anonymously on each other’s pages.
It can also be used as an application which can be accessed through Facebook.
Privacy and public policy officer at Facebook, Patricia Cartes, said: “If you engage with the ask.fm application on Facebook, our real name policy is automatically applied.
