Megan Meier according to press accounts was a disturbed child who took medication. That's not all that unusual these days, statistics show a high percentage of children to take some sort of medication to deal with the pressures of 21st Century adolescence. In Megan's case other adolescents whose ideas seem to have been fueled by pure animal instincts, allowed free rein by poor parental control and influenced by the dog-eat-dog mentality of our current media culture, caused her death. Yes, to put it plainly, caused her death. If a drill sergeant in the military did the same thing he would be up on charges. She was teased, lied to and told the world would be a better place without her.
MySpace provided the platform for this death. They continue to put a "toy" in the public domain that were it to come from China, still damp with it's poison based veneer, would be jerked off the market.
Social Networking promotes a materialistic life style, a life that is focused on seeking praise from other people and partying like you were Paris Hilton - and look where that has gotten her! Social Networking teaches that it is important to ridicule your friends about their clothes if their idea of style does not fit yours. Various television shows promote the same idea. There is so much of a drive to conformity - conformity to chic clothes, bad hairstyles, poor taste in sexual partners and substance abuse - it is amazing that SNS is not X-rated.
Megan Meier is another victim - on a list that is in the hundreds and growing larger every day - of the Social Networking phenomenon.
See the entire story at:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21844203/?GT1=10547
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