Thursday, October 18, 2012

R.I.P Amanda Todd.

I seen this picture on Facebook and i'm like what are they talking about? So i goggled it and the ABCNews website that I clicked on it talked about a 15 year old girl who lived in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia.




It was said that she had put a video on You Tube verbalizing her story using flashcards with writing on them. Right then and there I stopped and I watched the video with my roommates. She started talking about how in the seventh grade she talked to new guys that were online... and she referred them as her "friends". They complimented her telling that she was beautiful and what not. Then one of the men that she was talking to asked her to show him her chest. I'm assuming that at first she resisted... but then a year later she did. Amanda had received an anonymous facebook message saying that if she did not "put on a show" for him then he would send the picture of her chest to everyone. Over Christmas break she said that the police showed up at her house at 4 am saying that the photo had been sent to everyone. After that to me it seems like she just broke down. She said that she had moved on to drugs and alcohol. Amanda had moved a year later and everything was going good for her until the man from facebook came back and put the picture of her boobs as his profile picture she said "I cried every night, lost all my friends and respect people had for me again." She talked about how people called her names, how she started to cut herself, and how she ate alone. She also talked about a story of a certain situation where she made a huge mistake and hooked up with a boy at her school that had a girlfriend but she still believed that he really liked her. She mentioned that a week later she had gotten a text saying for her to go outside of her school. There was a group of students, with that one boy’s girlfriend being the head of the mob. They all surrounded her saying "Look around, nobody likes you." Some guy from the crowd had yelled "Just punch her already" so the girlfriend did. She stated that she threw her down to the ground and punched her several times. Some kids even filmed it; she wanted to die so bad when her dad found her in a ditch. Once she got home she tried to kill herself by drinking bleach and had to be rushed to the hospital to have her stomach pumped. She said once she got home and logged onto facebook all she saw was "She deserved it. Did you wash the mud out of your hair? I hope she’s dead." Once again Amanda moved to another city, but for sure the bullying and torture had followed her through facebook. Kids posted pictures of ditches and also suggested that she try a different brand of bleach. At the end of the video she said...

"Every day, I think, why is I still here?" she asked towards the end of the video. "I'm stuck. What's left of me now? Nothing stops. I have nobody. I need someone. My name is Amanda Todd."

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  1. who posed that photo? who ever they are.......they are sick

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    1. exactly! who has the heart to do that. Once they go through what amanda did they will understand. i was bullied tons of times, not even close to the way she was bullying, it wasn't viral and no one physically harmed me, but words still hurt. that saying: sticks and stones may break my bones but words can't hurt me?) its SO wrong! people need to go through it so feel it. and whoever jokes about it is sick in the mind O:

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