Amanda Todd Suicide

As stated by several people in this thread- social media sites have the option of blocking people. You can very easily anonymously search around on the internet and enjoy what it has to offer without being on facebook trying to get attention. If you MUST be logged in to some social site, you can easily block the people abusing you. The internet is full of trolls and people that act up because you cannot physically see them, thus it can be a harsh place. If you go on social media sites looking for attention and sympathy, you are really asking for some s'hit..

She could have blocked all the people she wanted, she could have deleted her facebook or stop using any social network all together but people would be still talking about it. Keep in mind the central scenario to this was real life, intertet was just the media people were using to criticize her without telling it to her face. I think it is expecting too much to ask someone of that age to shut themselves to the world and ignore all the people around her judging.

Also, I don't know how much her parents were there for her, but I know her Dad did take her to the hospital when she drank the bleach and also found her after she was beat up and took her home. At the very least, it doesn't seem that he was completely negligent. Past that, it seems unreasonable to blame her parents for her decisions. I know plently of people with divorced parents and they certainly are not making choices like these.

Lol taking her to the Hospital doesn't show he was a father to her, you would expect that from anybody, and picking her up after getting beat would be the least you would expect from a father. I'm not saying being divorced was the cause that he wasn't there for her, more like it shows her family already had issues like someone else mentioned and that those issues prolly carried on to her relationship with him. She prolly didn't trust him to speak of anything of what was going on and that you can blame him for.