MySpace Trick Gone Wrong Yields No Charges

In September of last year, a 13-year-old girl was contacted through MySpace by someone claiming to be a teenage boy named Josh Evans. The two corresponded for a month, but then the tone of their exchanges switched, and "Evans" accused the girl of treating her friends poorly, and told her that he wanted to end their friendship. A day later, the girl hanged herself. Eventually it came out that an older neighbor was posing as Josh Evans to learn what she thought of another girl. Yesterday, the local police department announced that no charges will be filed, provoking outrage from the victim's family.—Gregory Mone

Comments

[Erik]

Friends don't let friends use MySpace. Visually its a nightmare, socially its a crutch and culturally its a magnifying glass.

[Some Guy]

Interesting point (about the nightmare, amen. about the crutch, I guess I agree. About the magnifying glass, interesting). I switched to facebook long ago, because its platform is much better for what it's designed for -- social networking. It lets me keep contact with my overseas friends (none of which I met on facebook, of course. The fact that people do that on Myspace is still a concept that I don't fully understand) and share photos well. Still, I prefer people in real life to Facebook :p .

[mike D.]

Yea, I agree with some guy. One my relatives is on facebook and she has met many friends through it. Also, facebook has a cleaner image than myspace. There aren't any dirty images on facebook right? I have lightly pressed the topic of an online account because none are really clean. I need some information on facebook please.

[not in your bussines]

OMG so sad RIP megan

[Cazare Straja]

I can't believe that these kind of things happen. The girl was mentally unbalanced cause normal person wouldn't act that way. The boy/ neighbor is not guilty for the girls suicide in any way.