[SydneyK]

I saw an interview with Megan's parents on the Today show yesterday. It was the first I had heard of this story.

Before anyone here blames Megan's parents for allowing her to have a MySpace account (someone left a message about this on the link honey gave us), they said on Today that Megan and her parents created the account together, but only the parents knew the password to log on. So Megan couldn't access MySpace without one of her parents there. At first I thought, "Wow, talk about heli-parenting!" But then I realized that Megan was a 13 year-old girl on anti-depressants... and her parents probably realized she needed to be protected more than (probably) most teens.

This is such a sad story. I can't imagine that a mom would be so wrapped up in what someone might be saying about her daughter online that she would create a fictitious character in order to spy. Now, THAT's a helimom.

To address Honey's questions, no, I don't think MySpace should be held accountable at all. I think all responsibility falls on the family who created "Josh".

I realize that people create online identities that are far from the truth, and people will continue to do so. I guess I don't really see the harm in that except when those identities are created solely to cause someone else pain.