Many people have heard the story of Megan Meier, the 13-year-old who committed suicide after being tormented online by a teenage boy who told her to kill herself… who later turned out to be not a teenage boy at all but a 49-year-old mother getting some kicks through cyberbullying. (The woman in question, Lori Drew, [...]
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Suicide as spectator sport
Posted in News, Online issues, tagged abraham biggs, abuse, bullying, cyberbullying, internet, megan meier, Online, suicide, webcam on December 1, 2008 | 4 Comments »
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Storms… both online and off
Posted in Online issues, Personal, tagged blogs, comments, discussion, fighting, internet, online forums, online personas, Personal on November 21, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I’ve been prickly and on-edge the past couple of days. I don’t know why, and it’s bothering me. Yesterday I left a cranky comment on my favourite blog, which I immediately regretted because fighting online is about as productive as trying to convince my cat not to eat my plants: you can put as much [...]
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