It’s a crazy “internet” that we all live in. I’m sure that a lot of us start our day by loading our tabs with multiple social networking sites, browse for updates, reply to crushes, and snoop over an unsuspecting past significant other. But in all this, how much of what we do online is honest browsing? Or should I say, how much of what everyone else online is doing is completely honest and moral?
The Myspace Hoax of November 2007 involves a young girl, a pair of vicious enemies, and a fictitious flirt. A boy seemed to have appeared by Immaculate Conception over the wired streets of Silicon Valley. This boy tended to the emotional needs of a young girl, Megan Meier, who was sought out by a rivaling peer and her mother, Lori Drew. The Drew pairing created this boy, Joshua Evans, to become romantically involved with young Meier, so that they could attack her previous emotional struggles with ADD and Depression. The two immoral saps, sustained the romance on long enough when suddenly “breaking up” with Meier…thus, leading Meier, to her suicide.
I find this to be a very disturbing and immoral act. Drew, whose daughter was Meier’s peer, should have known better then to act on young, teenage angst. Not only did she mingle with this imbalance of hormones, but she pushed it to the point where a young girl had no place else to turn. Because of Drew, a young girl is dead. Sadly, she is not being charged with Meier’s suicide, but rather to the computer fraud charges brought forth against MySpace’s User Terms and Agreements (who reads that stuff anyway?)... She’ll luckily only be spending three years in prison, probation and up to $5,000 fine. Good for her. Hopefully somebody doesn’t decorate a gun with flowers, shoot Drew in the face and only risk getting sued by the artificial flower company for not using silk flowers, instead of plastic.
The Myspace Hoax of November 2007 involves a young girl, a pair of vicious enemies, and a fictitious flirt. A boy seemed to have appeared by Immaculate Conception over the wired streets of Silicon Valley. This boy tended to the emotional needs of a young girl, Megan Meier, who was sought out by a rivaling peer and her mother, Lori Drew. The Drew pairing created this boy, Joshua Evans, to become romantically involved with young Meier, so that they could attack her previous emotional struggles with ADD and Depression. The two immoral saps, sustained the romance on long enough when suddenly “breaking up” with Meier…thus, leading Meier, to her suicide.
I find this to be a very disturbing and immoral act. Drew, whose daughter was Meier’s peer, should have known better then to act on young, teenage angst. Not only did she mingle with this imbalance of hormones, but she pushed it to the point where a young girl had no place else to turn. Because of Drew, a young girl is dead. Sadly, she is not being charged with Meier’s suicide, but rather to the computer fraud charges brought forth against MySpace’s User Terms and Agreements (who reads that stuff anyway?)... She’ll luckily only be spending three years in prison, probation and up to $5,000 fine. Good for her. Hopefully somebody doesn’t decorate a gun with flowers, shoot Drew in the face and only risk getting sued by the artificial flower company for not using silk flowers, instead of plastic.
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