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SaintDebi wrote:I also have daughters: young adults. Through them I have met many respectful and self respecting young people, both male and female.
The little bit I've read of this young lady's posts are both saddening and alarming.
I haven't sussed the situation out properly, but if the parents are not on the scene is there a court appointed guardian? Are DHS involved?
Surely if we can access these posts then so can somebody, anybody who cares about this child. Alarm bells should be well and truly ringing. She may look 18, but she doesn't sound like a mature or particularly stable young person.
Showing my age here: I've never heard of formspring before. Can someone enlighten me? Is the whole purpose of it to let others comment on you and your life and find out what they truly think of you? Can anybody (whether you know them or not) contribute to these pages. And is there actually a constructive or useful purpose to these pages?
I'm asking in all seiousness. I get myspace and facebook. I can see pros to them as well as cons. But I'm not getting formspring, just from the glimpse of it I've had here.
Well I'm 17 and I don't get the purpose of Formspring haha. I know how it works though, I just don't see the point.
Basically, people can just ask you anything they want, but unlike Facebook and Myspace it's anonymous.
To me it just seems like people just stir s*** on there, I don't have one and I don't intend on getting one, but lots of my friends use it just for the fun of it I suppose.
I didn't mean to generalise about youth, apologies there as I also have a 17 year old as well as the 22 year old. I guess I was never subjected to this sort of behaviour/language/confrontational posting from either of them and reading that blog left me shaking my head somewhat. I always knew their circles of friends and what sort of people they were.
But clearly a lot of the questions posed on that blog (if you could call them questions) would be from similar aged people to her. That was the part that I probably found more difficult, not her answers so much but that so many others of her age group would just let fly with the comments they did.
I'd never heard of formspring until I read that either.
I reckon the whole irony of the website is the little footnote to the side of each blog stating you can report any abusive/inappropriate blogs by clicking on that button. Obviously not too many people that subscribe to that forum have noticed that button.
What kind of person writes to another that they want them to kill themselves?
This might give you an explanation of why and how some of these young women think enjoy
Gold.
"The inches we need are everywhere around us. They're in every break in the game. Every minute, every second. On this team we fight for that inch. On this team we tear ourselves and everyone around us to pieces for that inch. We claw with our fingernails for that inch. Because we know when we add up all those inches that's gonna make the f***in' difference between winning and losing! Between living and dying!'
In her den hunched over her crack pipe reading gay porn...
"The inches we need are everywhere around us. They're in every break in the game. Every minute, every second. On this team we fight for that inch. On this team we tear ourselves and everyone around us to pieces for that inch. We claw with our fingernails for that inch. Because we know when we add up all those inches that's gonna make the f***in' difference between winning and losing! Between living and dying!'
enjoy
