A real person, a real death is one of the sadder, more disturbing stories I've read in a long time.
Megan Meier, a young girl, overweight and shy, killed herself after being ridiculed by a young man who had led her to believe he was interested in her but who turned out to be a fraud created by two people in her neighborhood.
Not only did a young girl needlessly die, but her parents are marked by guilt and pain for letting her on MySpace in the first place and are now divorcing.
The Internet and especially MySpace can be a shadowy and dangerous world for young teens who are not emotionally equipped to deal with what is in essence a virtual lawless world where people under the cloak of anonymity can be vicious and cruel.
Posted by Jill Fallon at November 15, 2007 9:33 AM | Permalink