Why is everyone on Facebook talking about Amanda Todd?

corybluefire said:
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It was a real tragic case. I was going to start a topic hear. Her video was heartbreaking. Made me rage in anger at the pervert that harassed her.

Does anyone know if and how they can catch the guy... or why he may never get caught?

I do have reservations about these videos though... I fear many other depressed teens may take the same route.
 
I am baffled as to how her parents couldn't support her and be there for her. She drank bleach trying to commit suicide twice. Why was she even home? She should have been hospitalized.
 
Facebook is evil, evil, evil. Where was the parental supervision here? Children should not be allowed on the Internet without a parent over their back every, single second.

Kids are dumb, and that's not an insult, it's a fact of life. A human brain is not fully developed until the early 20s. Children need adults to take care of them, when did that stop?
 
That's what I don't understand. If my kid was being bullied on facebook I'd delete the account and shut the whole thing down. I'd be at the house of the parents of the bullies asking for help in stopping it.

Once she started cutting and suicide attempts I don't understand how the school and the parents didn't get majorly involved.

The bully teenagers are sick in the head. It's not up to them to "get it" but adults should get it.
 
truethat said:
That's what I don't understand. If my kid was being bullied on facebook I'd delete the account and shut the whole thing down. I'd be at the house of the parents of the bullies asking for help in stopping it.

Once she started cutting and suicide attempts I don't understand how the school and the parents didn't get majorly involved.

The bully teenagers are sick in the head. It's not up to them to "get it" but adults should get it.
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The parents made a mistake. They were separated. I think it is harder then you think to deal with that situation. I agree with you... more could have been done....... but I don't know about going after the mother.
 
I didn't say mother, but as a mother sorry a lot more could have been done. I've been a single parent. Cutting and suicide attempts would have had a major situation rolling in my world. I would have taken away her phone her facebook her laptop right after I found out that she had sent topless pix of herself. (I'm pretty sure that's a felony) This is a mess.

For a teenaged girl to say that she needs someone because she is all alone shows her parents really really dropped the ball.
 
truethat said:
I didn't say mother, but as a mother sorry a lot more could have been done. I've been a single parent. Cutting and suicide attempts would have had a major situation rolling in my world. I would have taken away her phone her facebook her laptop right after I found out that she had sent topless pix of herself. (I'm pretty sure that's a felony) This is a mess.

For a teenaged girl to say that she needs someone because she is all alone shows her parents really really dropped the ball.
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I don't think you can say with any certainty you knew what was going on with that family. I'm not saying you are wrong.... but I think it's a bit distasteful to word it like that.
 
I haven't seen any more info on this guy as of yet. Makes me skeptical if they ever found him.
 
I'm on Facebook and I'm not talking about Amanda Todd (whoever that is), nor have I seen anyone else do so. Would you care to try again, corybluefire?
 
corybluefire said:
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The other day, someone put up a picture of Amanda Todd side by side with a pic of another guy. On Todd's photo, it said something like, "Put her boobs on the internet and has sex with a guy in a relationship. She gets bullied and kills herself and the nation weeps."
On the guys photo, it said something like, "Gets bullied because he's ugly and no one cares."

That may have revamped the conversation.
 
sgtbaker said:
The other day, someone put up a picture of Amanda Todd side by side with a pic of another guy. On Todd's photo, it said something like, "Put her boobs on the internet and has sex with a guy in a relationship. She gets bullied and kills herself and the nation weeps."
On the guys photo, it said something like, "Gets bullied because he's ugly and no one cares."

That may have revamped the conversation.
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I saw that picture as well. While I think it beings up a valid point, that we tend to only 'care' (on a national sense) about suicide when it's a beautiful young white girl even though it's a huge problem for a lot of people who aren't, I also feel like some people are using that picture to diminish the suffering and problems that this young woman faced. I've seen it posted with the comment 'she knew what she was doing'.

The posters seem to be say that because she made some, rather large, mistakes she deserves less attention than someone who is bullied for reasons completely beyond their control. Again, the people who are bullied for reasons completely beyond their control do deserve more attention than they are getting, this girl's mistakes in no way justified bullies following her from school to school and town to town.

What's even more crazy is that the facebook friend who posted this poster with the comment 'she knew what she was doing' is the little sister of one of my friends, and I happen to know that this little sister has made the exact same mistakes that Amanda Todd made, sans suicide, and thankfully had the support of a lot of people in her life to get over it. She was also lucky enough not to gain any dedicated bullies because of these mistakes.

I have several friends who have done modeling. I have several friends who are stunningly beautiful. The lack of sympathy they sometimes get for their problems can be staggering. Apparently some people think that beautiful people don't have any real problems.

This entire thing is one ugly can of worms.
 
Sledge said:
I'm on Facebook and I'm not talking about Amanda Todd (whoever that is), nor have I seen anyone else do so. Would you care to try again, corybluefire?
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I seen it about 5 times on facebook.
 
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