That story is so awful.  Didn't the bully's mother finally get what she had coming to her?

I can't watch the video right now.

Knock it off, Eamon.  Your campaign to debunk me has been old for a long, long time.  I have assiduously left you alone for some time; you should have returned the favor by now.  It's insane to keep this up.

Evidently Elizabeth knows this story and would not allow her children to go on My Space.  I wonder if Face Book isn't in the same league.

People are reaping the rewards of the atheism they've indoctrinated their children with. Sadly innocent people (or people, anyway) are getting hurt and dying for it.

The whole atmosphere of public school is that religion is either nonsense or evil. What's left but darwin's "survival of the fittest" or rather, who can be the bully, and not the victim? And in the liberals, by totally eliminating any kind of real punishment in schools, are now literally killing the children with "kindness" ... eg, not stopping this garbage, because hey, the bully deserves respect and self esteem, and it's not nice to "abuse" people, right?

ѕυιcιdє is epidemic because atheism is. (Or if you prefer, because evil and cruelty are, because atheism is.) Sad, but... now a reality. Sickening...

But yes, the internet sites like facebook and myspace are bad news. Kids do all kinds of messed up garbage on all of those sites. In fact, the Angelus, I think, once had a big article about it. They feel that since it's anonymous, they can basically do anything on there. Meanwhile mom and dad in the next room don't know the first thing about what's really going on in their son or daughter's room. But parents need to realize, it's not just one or two sites. It's ANY SITE that they can meet and talk to others online. The forums parents haven't even heard of are every bit as bad as facebook... some of them MUCH worse. Just because it's not myspace doesn't mean it's safe or good.

I know one site, for example, that has user pictures that are cutsie little cartoon people... LOOKS innocent... except that it's loaded with blasphemy, filthy pictures, filthy stories, and all kinds of "virtual" sins are going on there, all the time. Site LOOKS like it could be for 5 year olds it LOOKS so cute. It claims to be safe for your 13 year old! It's not safe for adults, never mind children! It's a stinking den of mortal sin in reality. Mom and dad would never guess by looking at it, and chances are, they've never heard the name, but it's super popular, probably in the top five or ten popular social sites, statistically. Anywhere there are non-Catholic kids, teens and twenty-somethings gathered together who think morality is a joke, there is going to be mortal sin going on. Period. And that's pretty much the whole internet. (And naturally, public schools, too.)

Good confession!

A few years back, a trad boy did the same thing Megan did.  I will get the story and post it.  The conditions that led to his tragic end have not changed at all since, unless we admit that the situation has worsened due to the in/action of enablers and willing dupes who do not wish to see the truth come to light.

You're kidding, right?  Bullyism is the big problem to be fought?   Bullyism is an old, revered Catholic institution. In the 40 years I've been in the Church, I've never found it absent.  Look around you.  Everything from the slight, silent turning of the head to full blown ostracism; from derrogation to stalking with the intent to harm.  It's all right here, if we're going to be honest about it.  Some take great pride in their ability to out-bully everyone else.  

And you're going to counter it with what?  Trying to make friends with a Catholic is like trying to cuddle a pit viper.  You do so at your own risk.  If we can't even recognize it and change it in ourselves, how can we hope to change it in others?  Eamon's right.  Develop a thicker hide, or....