"Someone using Josh's account was sending cruel messages. Then, Megan called her
mother, saying electronic bulletins were being posted about her, saying things
like, 'Megan Meier is a slut. Megan Meier is fat.' Megan's mother, who monitored
her daughter's online communications, returned home and said she was shocked at
the vulgar language her own daughter was sending. She told her daughter how
upset she was about it. Megan ran upstairs, and her father, Ron, tried to tell
her everything would be fine. About 20 minutes later, she was found in her
bedroom. She died the next day."
The sad truth of the Internet, is that it is hard to see that it is a real person out there, real people are reading this blog. In a chat room, when you are cruel to someone, it is a real person that you are being mean to. Why would you say things online that you wouldn't say to their faces. In this case, it is even more disturbing because it was an adult that was abusing a child. If this were a case of one teenager mocking another, it would be different. Adults should understand and be aware of their words better than that.
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