6 Responses to "45 year old woman posed as a teenage boy on MySpace and befriended suicidal girl…"
November 30, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Yeah, I think you’re the only person who reads t’s and c’s…
December 1, 2008 at 4:27 pm
To be honest it is a bad thing but people have done much worse things with the internet, at least she never met up with the girl. But if she was emotional unstable anyway what’s to say that the older women drove her to do it… Interesting read though…
December 1, 2008 at 7:42 pm
Of course Dominic, her committing suicide was fine.
But as long as she didn’t meet her.
December 1, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Mike, I think Dominic’s point was that (given there’s no provable link between the suicide and the “bullying”), what the woman did (posing as a boy etc.) was no worse than a lot of other people do. She just happened to get caught.
December 1, 2008 at 8:39 pm
I was kidding, but despite there being no provable link between the suicide and the bullying, there still doesn’t seem to be question about her posing as a teenager, and violating terms of service.
Now I’m sure I’ve violated terms of service plenty of times, people do it all the time, but the important thing to remember is that this was done maliciously; her daughter knew that this girl suffered from depression.
The only problem with this case is, there is no good law to prosecute her.
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November 30, 2008 at 5:28 pm
omg You hear about men being ‘perverts’ on myspace and facebook etc. but not normally women. The artice doesn’t explain the reasons for her being untruthful about age and gender. The girl must have been depressed or had something wrong in the first place because it is rather radical to commit suicide because someone argues with you online – I always wonder why people don’t simply click the ‘block’ button. Some parents may become worried from this article and may wish to stop internet privileges which you showed on Friday Thursday is a bad idea with this. Not all parents are ready to face the modern age which is here now
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