Comments on: Dr. Keith: When Cyberfiction Kills

By: Josh Resnek

Josh Resnek — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:51:38 +0000

Dr. Ablow is absolutely correct about the Internet’s ability to kill – and the case of what he wrote about on his blog – is was as much a facilitator in the death of this pathetic young woman as a gun shot to the head.
What is most disturbing about the Internet is its ability to cause most users to become addicted to it, with the addiction second only to the misuse by others intending to cause hurt on another human being.
The Internet, in many ways, is like talking to an empty room. What do I mean? True, there are millions upon millions on their computers and surfing, reading, adding information but there is nothing truly human about the Internet except the human energy that went into its invention.
The girl who killed herself would have likely killed herself over some other incident relating to her insecurity and longing for love and to be needed.
She was a girl destined to suffer many tough breaks in this world.
Nothing, however, is more depressing than the adult monster who led her on the Internet to the point where she tied a rope around her neck in her bedroom and hung herself.
I would suggest that this adult woman’s punishment should be for the parents of the girl to place a rope around HER neck in HER bedroom and to watch her hang until she is dead.
Then justice would truly be done – and the Internet would have been the mover for tragedy and then justice.

Julius Caesar

By: Robyn

Robyn — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:26:13 +0000

Ox – you should be ashamed of yourself! This case went far beyond “making fun of”. This child was harassed constantly after being lulled into a false sense of security, even told to kill herself. There is nothing right about that! I made fun of kids when I was in school and kids made fun of me, BUT I never advised someone to kill themseves! This entire event WAS PERPETRATED BY AN ADULT TO GET BACK AT A CHILD!! There is no defense for that kind of action. This was deliberate and malicious. This woman belongs in prison – plain and simple. Tis girl was set up from the get go. I hope Lori Drew lives with her entire life and I hope she never has a moments peace with what she did! Her “making fun of Megan Meier” destroyed a young girls entire family for spite and hate. The saddest part is this could of have been avoided.

By: ox

ox — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:01:03 +0000

i cant believe this. maybe i not very sensitive. i do feel for the parents of the girl that killed herself. but how can this contry gotten to the point where makeing fun of someone is a crime. if that is the case u can take half my high school to jail for making fun of a kid i knew back then that killed himself. we all go thou it and weather its on the internet or not doesnt make any difference. most of us take the abuse we get when we are young. some of us fight back. but we all learn and grow from it. and there are a few that cant take it and decide suicide is there choice. maybe its the way i was raised but i feel like she took the easy way out. she didnt have the stubburness, the curage to play the game of life. coldheated uall might call me. but if this didnt happen she still might of did what she did from a different incident. this trial should be thrown out. if by anything from freedom of speech. if this girl was so depressed from the comments made to her, she should of shut off her computer and ingored it or fight back.