OMG, did you read about the woman who has been indicted in a MySpace cyber-bully teen suicide case? I think that girls and boys who are still too young should not go online to social networking sites without proper parental or adult supervision. I tell you, I am registered with almost all social sites although I am not active in these sites but I can't for the life of me think what the big attraction is.
And although American kids develop so fast that they know how to use the computer even before they are ten years old does not mean that they know how to reason or think what is right or wrong. In this MySpace cyber bullying case where this 13 year old girl committed suicide, she did it because she was led to believe that her 16-year old “friend”, a boy whom she met via MySpace, rejected her. Well, this woman led her to believe that.
Even if it was true that a “friend” whom you got to know online, rejected you, do you need to kill yourself? No, right? Even if rejected by REAL life friends also no need to kill yourself ma, right?? So, that’s why I said, 13 years old can use the computer, can connect to the internet but have no logical reasoning… that’s why things like these happen.
I showed my sister a photo of my old classmate, whom she also knows. She asked me where I obtained that photo and I told her FaceBook. My friend uploaded it to her FaceBook album. And my sister exclaimed, “There are lots of criminals there!” Well, I think she had mistaken FaceBook for MySpace LOL but then it’s not a matter of what’ in there or not there, it’s how we use it that matters most. We control whom we want to make friends with and how we interact with people we get to know on the web, same as in real life.
And although American kids develop so fast that they know how to use the computer even before they are ten years old does not mean that they know how to reason or think what is right or wrong. In this MySpace cyber bullying case where this 13 year old girl committed suicide, she did it because she was led to believe that her 16-year old “friend”, a boy whom she met via MySpace, rejected her. Well, this woman led her to believe that.
Even if it was true that a “friend” whom you got to know online, rejected you, do you need to kill yourself? No, right? Even if rejected by REAL life friends also no need to kill yourself ma, right?? So, that’s why I said, 13 years old can use the computer, can connect to the internet but have no logical reasoning… that’s why things like these happen.
I showed my sister a photo of my old classmate, whom she also knows. She asked me where I obtained that photo and I told her FaceBook. My friend uploaded it to her FaceBook album. And my sister exclaimed, “There are lots of criminals there!” Well, I think she had mistaken FaceBook for MySpace LOL but then it’s not a matter of what’ in there or not there, it’s how we use it that matters most. We control whom we want to make friends with and how we interact with people we get to know on the web, same as in real life.
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