My Life With IT

Online has its perils. You get spyware, spam, viruses, Trojan Horses and phishing. What is worst is that there are stalkers or simply weirdos out there to cause harm. Let’s say you get to know someone online and felt great just exchanging messages with this online friend/buddy. One fine day, you get this message, “I don’t want to be your friend any more. You are cruel to them.” What would you do?

This girl hung herself. She was suffering from depression and that message drove her to her death. The character, Josh, didn’t exist in real life and the profile was created to monitor the conversation between the fictitious boy and Megan. It was created because a mother wanted to know if Megan was telling the truth about her child online.

This sad case caused a young teen, her life and her family to be broken up. And there seems to be no way to charge the person who created the fake profile. And the stories about Megan being cruel was just a hoax.