Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Cyberbully

I found this article somewhat disturbing due to the fact that an adult lacked the maturity to talk to the parents about issues with Megan. I feel that to create a fake profile, I feel that to create a true profile you just have to be yourself, but on paper. I mean don't exaggerate your true self and just be honest, because if you have to assume that however much of a fib you are telling someone, the other person may be telling just as many or maybe even more. I feel that best thing to do is just take everything with a grain of salt and know that what you see or read is not always what you get, thats the only way to be careful and safe. The mother in some ways is at fault, due to the fact that the teasing and taunting was very much intentional and done so in order to almost "get back" at Megan for comments previously made. It seemed obvious that Megan did have personal issues that needed to be delt with, but with out understanding them the mother took it over board. It would have been much more appropriate for her to discuss the problem with Megans parents and work something out through a real face to face communication rather than an imagined hyber space relationship.

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