This makes it even more hilarious. You get told as a kid and in every god damn movie/tv show not to trust strangers, not to trust people you meet online. If you can't even listen to that because you're such a spezul little snowflake, well then, spin the wheel and collect your prize! People learn from their mistakes or the examples we give them. Somebody sometime has to become that example.
If she had been an innocent victim in all of this, or even one of those "I turned to prostitution/stripper because I was abused and can't handle anything else because I'm so fucked up" it would not be funny, at all. But she just kept making bad decisions and doubling down on them, even after it only made things nuclear bomb going off under your ass worse.
Something happened culturally with the rise of Facebook. Suddenly, it became socially acceptable to share massive amounts of personal information online. Before Facebook, people used screen names and were very reticent to share any kind of personal data. I spent my teenage years on the TeenSpot message board, and it was years before I shared my first name with people; I never gave out my last name.
This makes it even more hilarious. You get told as a kid and in every god damn movie/tv show not to trust strangers, not to trust people you meet online. If you can't even listen to that because you're such a spezul little snowflake, well then, spin the wheel and collect your prize! People learn from their mistakes or the examples we give them. Somebody sometime has to become that example.
The predators were able to use radicalization to bypass stranger danger.
Sadly true.
You gotta love people, dude.
If she had been an innocent victim in all of this, or even one of those "I turned to prostitution/stripper because I was abused and can't handle anything else because I'm so fucked up" it would not be funny, at all. But she just kept making bad decisions and doubling down on them, even after it only made things nuclear bomb going off under your ass worse.
Wasn't there a post where some NGO or educational resource recommended anonymous internet-forums to kids that struggled with gender identity.
Something happened culturally with the rise of Facebook. Suddenly, it became socially acceptable to share massive amounts of personal information online. Before Facebook, people used screen names and were very reticent to share any kind of personal data. I spent my teenage years on the TeenSpot message board, and it was years before I shared my first name with people; I never gave out my last name.