You're a douche ass-hat!

I think they covered this case on E! about the horrors of the internet not two days ago. The kid had a huge number of different screen names. The parents thought he was fine because he always spent a lot of time on the internet. So when he comes home and then gets online, no big deal. They didn't know there was a problem until after they read his chat logs, after he died. I know parents nowadays aren't exactly the most aware species on the planet, but I think it's going over-board to expect them to regularly invade the privacy of their children to the point where they monitor their conversations?

The problem (not saying it was a big one) was that these people at school were spreading rumors to the rest of the school. It's not like he was taking shit from just a few people, and given the number of screen names he created, it's reasonable to assume he WAS trying to avoid the harassment.

Another aspect that wasn't covered in the article was that this kid was trying to get some from the girls at the school. One in particular led him on and then basically told him he was a worthless shit. So, you know, not only is he being called gay, but now no girl will talk to him. He just hit puberty. I can see how that would suck.

Of course, I'm not exactly defending him. Just throwing some more information out there for all the snide comments about how easily this kid could have fixed things or how terrible the parents were for not paying attention to their kid.

Jam it back in, in the dark.