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OT -- 13 year old fat girl kills herself over fake MySpace account
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A story that is sad in many ways. Mean spirited teenage online bullying and love of a fake MySpace account made a girl to kill herself over her "relationship" with a fake MySpace account. What would be merealy an annoyance to an adult, made her do something stupid and irreversible. Those of us who are parents of online children may think about how to make them safer. My first two thoughts are to make sure that they would talk to us about their problems, and second, make sure that they do not take online stuff too seriously. i |
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OT -- 13 year old fat girl kills herself over fake MySpace account
Ignoramus2043 wrote:
http://stcharlesjournal.stltoday.com...okin_1.ii1.txt A story that is sad in many ways. Mean spirited teenage online bullying and love of a fake MySpace account made a girl to kill herself over her "relationship" with a fake MySpace account. What would be merealy an annoyance to an adult, made her do something stupid and irreversible. Those of us who are parents of online children may think about how to make them safer. My first two thoughts are to make sure that they would talk to us about their problems, and second, make sure that they do not take online stuff too seriously. i Obviously the biggest factor was her weight. Already 175lbs at 13, she felt she was probably on the way to morbig obesity. |
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OT -- 13 year old fat girl kills herself over fake MySpace account
On 2007-11-15, Manco wrote:
Ignoramus2043 wrote: http://stcharlesjournal.stltoday.com...okin_1.ii1.txt A story that is sad in many ways. Mean spirited teenage online bullying and love of a fake MySpace account made a girl to kill herself over her "relationship" with a fake MySpace account. What would be merealy an annoyance to an adult, made her do something stupid and irreversible. Those of us who are parents of online children may think about how to make them safer. My first two thoughts are to make sure that they would talk to us about their problems, and second, make sure that they do not take online stuff too seriously. i Obviously the biggest factor was her weight. Already 175lbs at 13, she felt she was probably on the way to morbig obesity. I do not know what was the biggest factor, but weight could be a big one. i |
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OT -- 13 year old fat girl kills herself over fake MySpaceaccount
On Nov 15, 11:28 am, Ignoramus2043
wrote: On 2007-11-15, Manco wrote: Ignoramus2043 wrote: http://stcharlesjournal.stltoday.com...-1111stc_pokin... A story that is sad in many ways. Mean spirited teenage online bullying and love of a fake MySpace account made a girl to kill herself over her "relationship" with a fake MySpace account. What would be merealy an annoyance to an adult, made her do something stupid and irreversible. Those of us who are parents of online children may think about how to make them safer. My first two thoughts are to make sure that they would talk to us about their problems, and second, make sure that they do not take online stuff too seriously. i Obviously the biggest factor was her weight. Already 175lbs at 13, she felt she was probably on the way to morbig obesity. I do not know what was the biggest factor, but weight could be a big one. i- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - It is very sad, and it points out a problem with the message board/ texting system. People tend to be anonymous which is synonymous with unaccountability. I seriously doubt someone would say the things in person that they say to a total stranger if they were face to face or really knew the person. It is a haven for chicken shi_s in other words. The beauty of it though is that you can just totally ignore anyone who does this with the ignore button. I don't know about myspace though. Perhaps people can't be ignored there. Another problem of course is that you cannot hear the person. Intonation means a lot. I see instances where people can't detect sarcasm, insincerity and guile that they would be able to detect even over a phone. It's not a perfect system that's for sure. Thirdly, you can't use sight and hearing, two very important clues to determine if you really should be talking to the person in the first place. Most older folks understand this, but teenagers tend to believe much more than they should to begin with. dkw |
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OT -- 13 year old fat girl kills herself over fake MySpace account
Ignoramus2043 wrote:
A story that is sad in many ways. Mean spirited teenage online bullying and love of a fake MySpace account made a girl to kill herself over her "relationship" with a fake MySpace account. What would be merealy an annoyance to an adult, made her do something stupid and irreversible. She wasn't bullied by teenagers - the instigator was a grown-ass woman. This is the most ****ed up thing I've read about in a while. |
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OT -- 13 year old fat girl kills herself over fake MySpace account
On 2007-11-16, The Queen of Cans and Jars wrote:
Ignoramus2043 wrote: A story that is sad in many ways. Mean spirited teenage online bullying and love of a fake MySpace account made a girl to kill herself over her "relationship" with a fake MySpace account. What would be merealy an annoyance to an adult, made her do something stupid and irreversible. She wasn't bullied by teenagers - the instigator was a grown-ass woman. This is the most ****ed up thing I've read about in a while. Maybe I misread the article, I thought that the woman instigated, and the kids did the dirty work. i |
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OT -- 13 year old fat girl kills herself over fake MySpace account
In California there is a law against "child annoyance." I don't know the
text of the law, but it might have been useful here. If the story is accurate, I would think they would get a lawyer for a civil suit. Attacking the offender's lawn and destroying their table was just stupid. "Ignoramus2043" wrote in message ... http://stcharlesjournal.stltoday.com...okin_1.ii1.txt A story that is sad in many ways. Mean spirited teenage online bullying and love of a fake MySpace account made a girl to kill herself over her "relationship" with a fake MySpace account. What would be merealy an annoyance to an adult, made her do something stupid and irreversible. Those of us who are parents of online children may think about how to make them safer. My first two thoughts are to make sure that they would talk to us about their problems, and second, make sure that they do not take online stuff too seriously. i |
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