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sinsboldly
Free Range Aspie
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Age: 57
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Location: Oregon, USA
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 Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 1:07 pm Post subject: Behind the online hoax that led to a girl’s suicide. |
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Friend Game
Just past suppertime on a starry night in November, several unfamiliar cars pulled up outside 251 Waterford Crystal Drive, in Dardenne Prairie, Missouri, where news vans had been parked for weeks to cover a tragedy that came to be known, in the bluff shorthand of the morning shows, as the MySpace Suicide Hoax. A well-combed man in a blue suit, a correspondent for “Good Morning America,” stood on the front lawn yelling into his BlackBerry. Two ornamental angels loomed from an upstairs window of the house, a two-story Colonial with white siding. Inside, much of the furniture had been removed from the living room, making way for a large picture, propped on an easel, of Megan Meier.
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http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/01/21/080121fa_fact_collins |
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Anemone
Phoenix
Joined: Mar 18, 2008
Age: 43
Posts: 790
Location: Vancouver, Canada
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| Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 1:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Horrible story. Makes me glad I was too clueless to understand what was going on socially when I was that age. |
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sartresue
Radical Aspergian
Joined: Dec 19, 2007
Posts: 2282
Location: The Castle of Shock and Awe-tism
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| Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 4:11 pm Post subject: Behind the online hoax that led to a girl's suicide |
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Drew crime topic
To think that an adult would allow children in her home to bully another. That Lori Drew has psychopathic tendencies.
I will be even more vigilant with my youngest, who uses computer chat lines. 
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Belfast
Vast Ambivalence
Joined: Jul 18, 2005
Age: 35
Posts: 1716
Location: New England
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| Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, I read the New Yorker article (it's only magazine to which I subscribe)-and then I watched the episode of PBS's Frontline that mentioned it, too.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kidsonline/etc/script.html
(link is to transcript of whole show, but from there you can click around for other features).
Makes me grateful, yet again, that I'm safely "old" (meaning no longer subject to having to deal with even more volatile adolescent social life/interaction). I feel bad for kids today, in that way-the internet has plenty of benefits for outreach, but also many dangers (for public humiliation) that I wouldn't want to be vulnerable to, especially in those "formative" years.
I didn't even get online until age 30-it was rocky enough thing to learn how to participate but it would've been even more perilous were I presently (now) a teenager. "Growing up" (not like I'm that mature now) was no picnic, but in retrospect am glad I did it "offline"-exploring only the "non-computer" world during my childhood/young adulthood.
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