Friend Game: The MySpace Suicide
 A 13-year-old girl hanged herself in Dardenne Prairie, Missouri after receiving insults from a boy she’d met on MySpace. It turns out that the boy did not exist but was an invention—a cyber-character created by the neighbors.
This is why I prefer my friendships to be analog: I have to know these people exist.
Friend Game in the New Yorker.
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January 15th, 2008 at 07:12
I heard someone’d gone wacko because I didn’t approve her friend request on Friendster…
January 17th, 2008 at 03:34
If the girl was that flaky, she didn’t have a chance in the real world anyway.