27: The Lessons of the Amanda Todd Story

There are just so many.  I think this really serves as a very real reflection of who we are becoming as a generation, and the ignorance that just runs absolutely rampant in the online world.  This story shows us how through the internet and almost nothing else, unimaginable damage can be done to a person, even, as this case showed, to the point of suicide.  Honestly, closely examining the layers to this story to me show shades of Lord of the Flies, in that there is a part of people that are just pure evil.  However, today's shipwreck is a life that has treated a person poorly, but now people don't even have to leave the comfort of their own homes to drive people to the point where they would take their own life.  I mean, there's nothing we can do about that as individuals except not become that person, but this story just goes so much deeper.  The amount of times it could have been turned around are just innumerable, and every single time the internet provided only mockery and harsh, harsh cruelty.  I suppose as a culture we could figure out where the line is, but in my opinion there are just too many idiots out there.  It's not that they weren't there before, just that now they can open photoshop and meme away until eventually their wave hits home.  While all of this is just unbelievably depressing, I think it's important that we realize the internet has many many layers, and has an extent of power over the psychology of this and future generations so vast, I don't think anyone can fully grasp it.