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/me remembers to add myspace.com, facebook.com and any other social masturbation sites to point to 127.0.0.1 in any host file of any PC my child touches. Guess I'll have to befriend the IT guys at my kid's elementary, middle and high schools and see if they feel the same way I do about those sites and are happy to block them.
Or maybe I can just share my distaste for those sites with my kid, and he might realize real friends are better than an online popularity contest.
I do feel sorry for the girl's parents. I don't feel sorry for the girl. I'm sorry, but I have little sympathy for suicide "victims" (no matter what age). To me, that is the most selfish thing a person can do. There's a lot to this story that feels so one-sided I don't know what to think, but I do know that suicide is simply an easy answer for "difficult" problems, and hurts the ones you love more than the "victim" themselves.
If I were the girl's parent I'm not sure how I would react, but I imagine it would result in much larger fines than $1000 in property damage. I would have to move away, I don't think I could bear being in close proximity to the other family. I'd just be an asshole, out watering the lawn and giving dirty looks to everyone who walked by. Become that old creepy guy that everyone whispers about the "tragedy" that once happened there and he's never been the same since. Yeah, I feel sorry for the parents; not the girl.
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