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Remembering Megan Meier – When MySpace Privacy Goes Wrong
The recent case of the St. Louis mom Lori Drew posing as a boy and ridiculing 13 year-old Megan Meier is obviously horrible. Drew created a fake MySpace profile and then told the emotional 13 year old girl that “the world would be better without her..”
It resulted in the girl hanging herself, and a large controversy over who is responsible. Obviously, MySpace themselves comes into question – how could they allow this?
The fact of the matter is that it is almost too easy to pretend to be someone else online, and it will be interesting to see what kind of new regulations this brings about for online publishers.
4 Users Commented In " Remembering Megan Meier – When MySpace Privacy Goes Wrong "
This is such an awful reality. What motive could this women have to be so cruel towards such a young girl?
That is terrible. What is wrong with that woman anyway?!?!?
The worst part is there really is no way to tell who people really are on here. Perverts, bullies, addicts, and lunatics are online just as strong if not more so than out in the real world and they can be pretending to be anyone!
I read an article in this morning’s local paper about how 1 out of every 3 people online isn’t who they claim to be at all. Are you surprised?
MySpace should be so far from on trial concerning this story. If myspace were to be on trial the court would be asking them to go against the first amendment. I honestly see no difference in Lori Drew doing this on line rather than harassing Megan over the phone. So the fact that a social website could be blamed for hate speech resulting in the death of an insecure teen is like At&t being sued for issuing someone a phone with the capability of receiving a crank call.
