Have you heard about this story?
A 13 year old girl killed herself after being targeted on MySpace. Someone from her neighborhood who did not care for this girl pretended to be a boy named Josh. "Josh" spent a month sending messages back and forth with this girl. One day "Josh" told the girl she was cruel, and a slut, and fat. The girl killed herself.
I remember when I was 13, I remember when Mandy was 13 sometimes I wonder how we ever got through it all. Even now at nearly 17 Mandy sometimes gets her feelings really hurt by her girls friends. When I was growing up we didn't have MySpace, we had the school bus and the playground. People were still mean, they found a way. Is it worse now with the anonymity of the Internet?
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Bullies find it much easier to be cruel behind the veil of anonymity.
In addition, many kids are neither supervised, nor held accountable for their bad behavior.
I would not want to be a teenager in this day and age.
I saw a related story today about teens using IM because it removes the embarrassment factor. You don't have to see a person's real life reaction, face-to-face, and it makes you braver, somehow.
It's all scary.
And bullies suck, online or in person.
yeah, i've heard about text messaging bullying, phone bullying, internet... it's all so damn overwhelming.
and to read that article and find out ADULTS were helping with the ploy, that's beyond horrible.
While this is an extreme case, I think that all girls have to deal with bullying. They also have to deal with how to handle their own anger. Most girls don't really know what to do when a friend hurts their feelings, they keep the anger in them. It grows and gets out of control. They hate each other with such intensity at this age. I think that this issue of anger and hate is a big part of the problem.
The article in our paper sia dthat a mother of a neighbor girl started the "josh" thing because she wanted to see what the 13 year old was saying about her daughter. The mother and other adults were the ones sending the majority of the emails and doing most of the dirty work.
I think this is awful.
I somehow missed this story. I just cannot fathom how adults could be involved in doing something like this to a kid. My daughter has some problems with bullying sometimes. It seems so much harder to be a teenager now than when I was that age.
Wow, that is awful that the parents were involved. The whole thing is tragic.
I think it is easier with the computer screen between one and the person they intend to harm. It makes me sick that parents got involved this time with their defense being they wanted to see what this girl was saying about their daughter. Is just wrong all the way around. It stings whether in real life or over the internet. It is reading "put-your-name-here is a B*tch" on the bathroom wall...only the effort reaches far more people.
This is a sad story. I think bullying and this sort of thing is a bigger issue than many people think. How many times have you heard people say, "High school is the best time of your life?" Well, it isn't always so. My sons were bullied and with the first one it didn't stop until he got in a fight with one of the kids.
What a sad story. I definitely think that anonymity emboldens bullies. And why on Earth did these adults feel the need to band together to bully a child?
I heard this story and it broke my heart. Kids are mean and they don'r realize until later that this will pass.
Yes.
My daughter told me about this. She was most outraged by the fact that the girl who did the fake page was not remorseful.
I think there are always bad things and have been during every time in history. It is a fallen world and every generation has to deal with it's own crap.
I'm in denial. Eldest daughter is about to turn thirteen.
I am about to have a teenager.
I am scared.
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