and the Megan Meiers thing continues

[rm]

http://meganhaditcoming.blogspot.com/2007/12/im-lori-drew.html

I can't decide if it's more or less disturbing if it's a troll as opposed to Lori Drew.

Comments

[beemerbike.livejournal.com]

wow! I'm glad more parents aren't so reasonable. People like her make me sick and sometimes secretly wish for forced sterilizations.

[winterknight.livejournal.com]

Sounds frighteningly legit. Either way, it's fucked up. Brutal. :(

[phaenix-ash.livejournal.com]

i think if it's a troll, it's a subtle one and does that exist? trolls go for photoshopped pics and "an hero" references. i think it's real and that lady is pure evil of the worst kind. she's also an idiot because i'm pretty sure meghan's parents have a civil suit in the works.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

That is so disturbing.

[britgeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

I can't decide if it's more or less disturbing if it's a troll as opposed to Lori Drew.

I agree with you. It's awful, whichever way it's viewed.

[redstapler.livejournal.com]

Each piece of information that comes out about this story makes it all the more gruesome and terrifying.

I shudder to think what my childhood would have been like if it were happening now.

[baldanders.livejournal.com]

I think, even with all the septic crap around the net, that my childhood would have been much better with the internet. These days outcasts can find people like them; when I grew up, I was isolated from pretty much anything else like me. Even just a touch of sanity, of fellow-feeling, can save someone.

[redstapler.livejournal.com]

I guess my comment is a bit disingenuous: I got AOL when I was 13. So I've been online from pretty much my adolescence onwards.

I can tell you, as can Racheline, that the things girls do to each other is unbelievable. I'm thankful that when I was online, it wasn't *quite* as popular and ubiquitous with my classmates as it would be today.

While I found exactly what you described, an online haven where I encountered people like myself, I think the signal-to-asshole ratio is much higher for 13 year old girls these days.

All you need is one person to find your myspace/LJ/facebook/IM name/email address, and suddenly your entire school could be at your door.

Racheline and I both had that experience with answering machine messages. My parents shielded me from it--I never heard the messages.

Technology is a double edged sword, especially in this sort of case with young, cruel girls. And in this particular case, sociopath mothers who think they're "protecting" their kids.

[baldanders.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that makes sense.

I have some idea of how cruel girls can be to each other. My sister and I went through school in the same grade, and she was as much an outcast as I was -- we were very much back-to-back against the world -- and while I took a lot of physical abuse and plain bullying, she was subjected to social and psychological cruelty that makes me sick to this day.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I tend to think, being older than you, that having had the net in high school would have been a double-edged sword for me, and not in the sense of bullying, but in the sense that my one refuge would have been a thing my parents would have fiercely tried to protect me from.

[redstapler.livejournal.com]

That may not be an age thing, but a differences in our parents thing.

My parents openly admitted on many occasions they had no idea how to use the computer or AOL, and trusted me to be safe and read "appropriate" things.

I can see without any difficulty, your parents having a decidedly opposite reaction.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Well age in the sense that I can only speculate. There was not commonly available commercial Internet in my childhood.

[baldanders.livejournal.com]

What I don't understand -- as Kathryn Cramer has angrily asked -- is why the hell has Google ("do no evil") not suspended this blog?

[upstart-crow.livejournal.com]

Maybe something to do with an ongoing investigation? I have read that police are looking into this blog. But Kathryn has a good point there.

[saltbox.livejournal.com]

If it is Lori Drew, it's pretty moronic, because it'll give Megan Meiers' parents a pretty good shot at a successful civil suit. This blog would make her look pretty unsympathetic before any jury.

[labellerose.livejournal.com]

I certainly grok the white-hot fury of a parent who feels their child is being mistreated.
But something any parent would do? Well as for me, I'm not in the habit of psychologically torturing children, thank you just the same.

[upstart-crow.livejournal.com]

(icon directed at Ms. Drew, not anyone here)

Interestingly, I have rarely, rarely ever had any problems with girls or women; growing up, most of the children who tormented me were male. The two people who broke my heart almost irreparably before I turned 18 were male. But I digress.

I'm of two minds about this blog. Lori Drew would have to be a complete moron to post this, as it's basically the 'net equivalent of a neon sign proclaiming "SLAP ME WITH A CIVIL SUIT PLZ KTHX." But she's pretty much proven that she's a complete idiot already, so I wouldn't put it past her.

The news stories I have read have her denying any involvement and saying that she kept quiet for exactly this reason. But it's quite interesting to me that a lot of the details seem to match up with other articles, police reports, etc. If it is a troll, it's a very smart one who I think is also rather sociopathic.

[upstart-crow.livejournal.com]

Should add that I'm just as disturbed by most of the people who support "Lori Drew" in their comments (including a mother of a girl with bipolar disorder WTF with a side of OMG). People disturb me so much, honestly.

[tlatzomia.livejournal.com]

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