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08 Feb 08
Just say NO to status-reinforcing anti-social apps that reinforce social "comparison" "rating" and "inner circle" thinking. The only people who benefit from status-building are those who wish to sell us stuff.
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07 Feb 08
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29 Jan 08
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Wesley Fryerarticle about the Megan Meier suicide and the issues it raised/raises
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19 Jan 08
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Just past suppertime on a starry night in November 2007, several unfamiliar cars pulled up outside 251 Waterford Crystal Drive, in Dardenne Prairie, Missouri, where news vans had been parked for weeks to cover a tragedy that came to be known, in the bluff shorthand of the morning shows, as the MySpace Suicide Hoax... A year earlier, Megan Meier had committed suicide after an exchange of hostile messages with a boy who had befriended her on MySpace. She was thirteen, a volleyball player and a Chihuahua maniac... The “MySpace Suicide Hoax†tagline that appeared on the broadcasts and in the chat rooms was, however, a misnomer. Megan’s suicide had not been a hoax; rather, it was precipitated by a hoax, involving a boy named Josh Evans. Josh Evans was a fake, a cyber-character created by neighbors of the Meiers... Teen-age identities mutate so quickly online, and can be masked so easily, that by the morning after Megan was pronounced dead Josh Evans had vanished from MySpace. It wasn’t until a month after her death that a neighbor named Michele Mulford told the Meiers that Curt and Lori Drew, who lived four houses down, had created “Josh†in concert with their thirteen-year-old daughter, a longtime friend of Megan’s. The two thirteen-year-olds had recently quarrelled. Mulford’s own daughter, also thirteen, had been given the password to the account, and had sent at least one unkind message to Megan in Josh’s name. Megan had accompanied the Drews on several vacations, and they knew that she was taking medication.
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14 Jan 08
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