“For instance, last spring, when an eighth-grade girl at Horace Mann School in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, sent a digital video of herself masturbating to a male classmate on whom she had a crush, it quickly appeared on a file-sharing network that teenagers use to trade music. Hundreds of New York private school students saw the video, in which the girl’s face was clearly visible, and it was available to a worldwide audience of millions.”

This is a paragraph from an article I read few days ago. Its about online bullying, and it describes some nasty episodes of adolescent cruelty. When I first read it I thought it was funny and I laughed about the stupidity of some people to put themselves in such situations.


Today I saw a video with a girl like the one described above. I dont know if it was the same girl. It might even be a fake video (even tho I doubt it), but it made me change my mind.

I think its just a fool girl doing something desperate. When you are that age and you think you are in love you do stupid things. You do them even if you are not in love or even if you are not that age. We all did them. We all do them. Maybe not that stupid, but maybe it was just we didnt record them on video. We are kind of lucky they cannot be broadcasted.

Maybe the guy who first posted the video is an asshole, but maybe he is just a fool kid too that showed it to his close friends, and then they did the same with some other friends and so. And then someone put than on a P2P net. And now everyone has seen it. And we all think its so funny and redistribute the links. Maybe that guy is not the only asshole.

I feel really sorry for the girl. I really do.