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Once you’re on MySpace, you’re trapped,” said Jake Dobson, 12, a seventh-grader at West Middle School. “You spend all your time online just trying to keep the negative stuff about you from spreading.”
Megan Meier spent months begging for a MySpace page before her mother finally gave in. Tina Meier thought that making friends online could be good for her daughter, a sensitive girl who craved an emotional connection.
But that neediness made Megan vulnerable. By the third grade Megan hated herself and talked of suicide, Tina Meier said. The diagnosis was depression and attention deficit disorder, which meant Megan would receive weekly counseling and an evolving list of medications as treatment.
