Yesterday’s essay about Megan Meier, the Missourian 13-year-old who was cyberbullied by a crazed neighborhood mom until she hanged herself with a belt last year, made us think twice, again, about that whole ‘internet’ thing. 12-year-olds are saying things like, “Once you’re on MySpace, you’re trapped. You spend all your duration online just trying to keep the negative stuff about you from spreading.” And: “It’s like I can’t even do

anything considering everybody is sitting there with a cellphone just waiting for me to mess up.” Seriously, guys, it is nice being able to look up movie times and look at LOLcats, but in general the whole thing should be shut down. [NYT]

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