Should kids be tormented through the internet or cell phones? I do not think so. Megan Meier was a girl that got caught up in the social world on the internet. She met a new guy online and thought everything was going great till he turned on her. She started getting messages from schoolmates and this new guy saying that they did not like her and the way she treated people. She could not handle all that they were putting on her. Because of being cyber-bullied this girl took her own life. Then afterwards her parents tried to contact this guy she had met online but could not get ahold of him. They could not get ahold of him because he was not a real teenage boy, but instead a woman in her late forties that was the mother of one of Megan’s’ former friends. I feel like this woman got off too easily, because back when this happened there were not very many laws against bullying. Since this happened there have been laws put into effect against bullying but since this action happened before the laws were made this woman was not charged as bad as she could have been. The laws put into effect today cannot convict on actions made before the law was passed. I think that parents should keep in mind that no matter how much they trust their kids to behave and be respectful online, that you cannot always trust everyone else in the world. Parents need to talk to their teens before they let them sign up for an account on a social network like MySpace, Facebook, or twitter. Parents, you need to let your teens know that no matter what they talk about online that you are always there for them if they are experiencing harmful threats or mean messages. No teen should feel like they do not have anyone to talk to about being cyber-bullied or just bullied in general. Teens should know that they can go to someone for help and not be afraid to.
