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WTF? What kind of mother would ever do that?! Do you think the parents should press charges?

Do you know how many underage kids are on Myspace? Lots.

I know but that's not an excuse. Her parents should have check.

Her parents DID check!

The terms and conditions? I don't think so, it didn't say so. I believe if her parents read the terms and condition, they wouldn't let her sign up on myspace. You have to be 14 years of age or older. She was too young.

"Megan, a girl who had battled attention deficit disorder, depression and a weight problem for much of her young life, believed him, despite her mother’s warnings to be cautious."

If their daughter battled attention deficit disorder, depression and a weight problem. Why would they let her on myspace? You have to be strong minded to deal with some people on myspace and the internet itself. She was young and naive. They killed her with words.

I think [this is just my opinion] they let her have a myspace because they wanted her to have a regular life and now, online services like myspace are becoming a part of regular life. I think they thought they were safe enough to have their daughter give them her email and pasword just to check up but not to interfere with her life. Her mother warned her about him she should have listened. In the end its her fault.

How can your parent protect you from yourself?

I agree and disagree. I disagree when you stated it was her fault. I think it her parents fault, why? Because she is only a child. Yes her mother warned her but she didn't do enough for me. Okay lets say her parents read the terms and conditions (which I doubt they did) and they allowed her to create an account anyway. I think they should only let her add and accept friends she knew personally.

When I made an account on myspace, even though I was old enough. My mom would sit with me and ask me about every person on my friends list, and she would ask me to tell her one fact about them that's not mention on their profile. Her mother could have done what my mother done.

Now what you said about myspace being people's regular life. I somewhat agree. The people that made the hoax was wrong and her parents was wrong on their part too. You can't blame it all on the people. I blame the parents more because they have the power as her parents to have prevented all this and they didn't handle the situation the right way and monitor her right, imo.

lol wow that was long.

I only say it was her fault because she knew that she was depressed she knew that people online weren't always going to be nice. I agree with you about the parents tho. I don't think they handled this situation right and they could have done more. But she might have been hiding things from her parents as well witch would make it her fault again. She was young and she wanted her independence so I'm guessing she probably did.

There is many parental control programs out there. My mom used to tell me (and still does) "When you live under my roof you have no privacy. Your privacy, my privacy" She don't need independence, she too weak minded for independence. I put all the blame on the parents and some on the people. The people can do so much. It the parents job to stop it.

sorry it was so long.

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Her parents knew she was depress. If I was them I would've been more stricter on her because of her problems.

^ thats ok at least it was well written and not a bunch of crap.

Anyways,
What about hte messed up mom?
You don't blame her for suggesting to Meagan(sp?) that she kill herself?

Well good for you and your mom, but do you know how many parents do that? Not many. So just put that ideal aside and focus on the crisis at hand:

Every f**cking kid on the planet has a myspace. This creepy pervy mother who was upset over her daughter and Meghan getting in a fight, so she makes a fake myspace account and feeds this girl a lie and they get into a relationship, and the mean while Meghan's parents are warning her, but they're not prohibiting her from anything because they want her to live a normal life and they think she has the proper judgment on who to trust and who not to. Then this creepy kid starts getting mad at her and tells her they can't be friends anymore, and Meghan, who is depressed, gets upset but can handle it, but then this f**cking woman told her that everyone would be better off without her and Meghan overreacts and killed herself because she is clinically depressed. Where in hell does this woman have the right to say that to a young impressionable mentally unstable child? To anyone, for that matter?!

WTF kind of mother would EVER do something like that? She damn well better get charged with something. I don't see how you're getting off with saying that it was Meghan's parents' fault--they were more involved in her online life than most parents. They read the messages. They knew what was going on.

A crazy one.

If you were them, she would have been dead a long time ago.

^ thats actually true. She wouldve made a bigger deal out of being suppressed to a normal life to some weird dude she met on the internet.

Yes I blame her (when I say "the people" I meant her). THAT'S when the little girls parents should have step in, really. It stated that the parents had her password and look at her messages. That tell me that they didn't look through it carefully, if so, they would've saw the comment or message. One thing about the internet. If someone get out of hand like that. You can always cut off the computer. That's the good thing about. But the blame always fall back on top of the parents because they didn't monitor her right. They didn't read the terms and conditions. It's your parents job to protect you, even from yourself.

WTF SHE WAS 13 NOT 7. ONE YEAR DOES NOT REALLY CHANGE YOUR MATURITY LEVEL. WHY THE HELL ARE YOU SO HUNG UP ON THAT?

Yes it is. But how are they gonna stop you from killing yourself? Well I guess you could lock her up but she'd hate you for the rest of her life and shed probably find some other way to do it. All parents want for their child is to have a normal healthy life [unless your one of those messed up attention seeking parents.] So I can see why they were so loose with her especially since she was depressed. They don't want their daughter to have to live out her days in a asylum or anything like that. They want her to be regular, herself. But besides from the normal fact. They should have monitored her better. I mean unless she's smart [like me! lol] and deleted the messages [permanently, as in deleting the files in the trash bin.] they could have never even known that he was saying these mean things to her.

She probably would . But on a serious note. It's not a bad idea

lol you're really passionate about this thread arent you?

I'm passionate about my dislike for thickheaded people.

She's not thickheaded she just thinks differently.
So what if she blames the parents. Its just an opinion.

No matter what you do to make this sound nice, its not going to work.
The entire family is f**ked if you ask me.

It's their fault for allowing their daughter to chat up some guy she didn't even know, and then let it become so serious.

Any way you twist it, it's all sick, disgusting, and wrong. Everyone is at fault.

i dont believe the parents were tracking their daughter more than any other suburban family.

they probably meant password by signing into the computer and not myspace account password.

"Her parents knew she was depress. If I was them I would've been more stricter on her because of her problems." no one ever really thinks it would happen to them.

"I only say it was her fault because she knew that she was depressed she knew that people online weren't always going to be nice."
idkkk only 13? you don't realize or really understand online bullying or really bullying in school.

I do. I'm only 14.
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well... maybe I don't fully understand.
But I undrestand it enough to know to protect myself.