Family Shunned Over MySpace Hoax, Teen's Suicide

[Fandango 1,440]

Reading that blog was just absolutely disgusting.

Saying that, I really don't know how I feel about this whole thing...the Drew woman acted in a deplorable and sadistic manner. I think some of the onus for Megan's suicide is on her head. However, where were the parents and why did they drop the ball monitoring Megan's internet use? How could they not see how clearly disturbed their child was?

I dunno, this is just such an awful tragedy. The Drew woman - if she really wrote that thing - is disturbed beyond words.

From earlier articles I've read, they didn't sound like negligent parents. Unlucky, sure, but unless you want to take the hard line that leaving a teenager home alone at all is negligence, they don't really sound like people that could have done much more. They had treated her depression, and until they day where the whole thing blew up, her being online hadn't been a problem; and it was supervised. None of the accounts were secret.

Megan was upset over the online spat, her mom told her to get offline, then she went out, called home to check in, came home, Megan was still alive and still upset, her mom told her to get offline, her mom went down to make dinner and talk with her husband about how they should approach this subject with Megan, went upstairs to get her for dinner, found her hanging dead in her closet.

I dunno, I don't think I'd ever allow my 13 year old on myspace without me being there looking over her shoulder. I'm not in any way saying that this is solely the parents' fault, but I do think 13 is such a precarious age & more monitoring of the site should have been done.

Meanwhile, in that link above where the Drew woman is denouncing that site as her blog, I find it rich that she's up in arms about someone on the net masquerading as another....

[AUBGER 0]

The blog supposedly written by Lori Drew is apparently a fake.

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But if Lori did create the fake Josh account to find out what Megan thought of her daughter, even if she didn't mean any harm and wasn't one of the ones who actually tormented Megan, that was still such immature behavior on her part. Teenagers gossip and build cliques and do all that carrying on. It's the parents' job to help the kids grow out of that foolishness, not to participate in it themselves. If the teenage talk gets out of hand, the parents should talk with each other as adults in the interest of all the kids, not create fake MySpace accounts to spy on each other's children. I wouldn't go so far as to blame Lori for Megan's suicide, but I think her actions were very immature and she exercised very poor judgment, as did Megan's mom by allowing Megan unsupervised access to the Internet. I also agree that the Drews are in quite a bit of danger.

Yup I totally and fully agree with you! This pretty much sums up my thoughts about the whole deal

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Reading that blog was just absolutely disgusting.

Saying that, I really don't know how I feel about this whole thing...the Drew woman acted in a deplorable and sadistic manner. I think some of the onus for Megan's suicide is on her head. However, where were the parents and why did they drop the ball monitoring Megan's internet use? How could they not see how clearly disturbed their child was?

I dunno, this is just such an awful tragedy. The Drew woman - if she really wrote that thing - is disturbed beyond words.

From earlier articles I've read, they didn't sound like negligent parents. Unlucky, sure, but unless you want to take the hard line that leaving a teenager home alone at all is negligence, they don't really sound like people that could have done much more. They had treated her depression, and until they day where the whole thing blew up, her being online hadn't been a problem; and it was supervised. None of the accounts were secret.

Megan was upset over the online spat, her mom told her to get offline, then she went out, called home to check in, came home, Megan was still alive and still upset, her mom told her to get offline, her mom went down to make dinner and talk You'll get that chance awith her husband about how they should approach this subject with Megan, went upstairs to get her for dinner, found her hanging dead in her closet.

I dunno, I don't think I'd ever allow my 13 year old on myspace without me being there looking over her shoulder. I'm not in any way saying that this is solely the parents' fault, but I do think 13 is such a precarious age & more monitoring of the site should have been done.

Meanwhile, in that link above where the Drew woman is denouncing that site as her blog, I find it rich that she's up in arms about someone on the net masquerading as another....

Good luck with that.

Edited December 8, 2007 by Mister Fancypants

[Fandango 1,440]

Reading that blog was just absolutely disgusting.

Saying that, I really don't know how I feel about this whole thing...the Drew woman acted in a deplorable and sadistic manner. I think some of the onus for Megan's suicide is on her head. However, where were the parents and why did they drop the ball monitoring Megan's internet use? How could they not see how clearly disturbed their child was?

I dunno, this is just such an awful tragedy. The Drew woman - if she really wrote that thing - is disturbed beyond words.

From earlier articles I've read, they didn't sound like negligent parents. Unlucky, sure, but unless you want to take the hard line that leaving a teenager home alone at all is negligence, they don't really sound like people that could have done much more. They had treated her depression, and until they day where the whole thing blew up, her being online hadn't been a problem; and it was supervised. None of the accounts were secret.

Megan was upset over the online spat, her mom told her to get offline, then she went out, called home to check in, came home, Megan was still alive and still upset, her mom told her to get offline, her mom went down to make dinner and talk You'll get that chance awith her husband about how they should approach this subject with Megan, went upstairs to get her for dinner, found her hanging dead in her closet.

I dunno, I don't think I'd ever allow my 13 year old on myspace without me being there looking over her shoulder. I'm not in any way saying that this is solely the parents' fault, but I do think 13 is such a precarious age & more monitoring of the site should have been done.

Meanwhile, in that link above where the Drew woman is denouncing that site as her blog, I find it rich that she's up in arms about someone on the net masquerading as another....

Good luck with that.

Don't need it, thanks.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

The internet is still a pretty new technology, especially where these social networking sites are concerned. I'm not sure where I would begin to restrict access to a particular internet site, short of password protecting the PC itself.