Death Toll For Internet Teen Suicides Hits 17

Yes, Depression associated with Bioelectromagnetics is a good place to look for causes, but also, there is the fact that this planet is overpopulated by a factor of 10.

In Upstate NY is a laboratory where they work with rats. There are two warrens--- one has plenty of light, water, food. The rats in this warren are relatively happy and healthy, with sleek coats. The warren is well ordered. The other, Warren B, is identical, except for one difference: Warren B is overcrowded. These rats have red eyes and their behavior is eratic, bordering on insanity. Their coats are shabby and many have large bald patches. Aggressive rats bully the submissive rats, often mounting them to show dominance. Behavior of all the rats in Warren B is chaotic.

To me, the rat world of Warren B is a perfect metaphor for the overcrowded planet Earth.

If you follow the first link in the story you find a page when there were only 13 dead. "Seven teenagers in Brigend, Wales have killed themselves in a string of suicides, with two more hospitalized after attempting to do the same." So obviously it is NOT murders...

I think these are murders. If they're suicides these kids are dumbasses. No one's going to visit your Bebo if it closes 3 days after you kill yourself. Morons!

Somehow I don't think the membership is sustaining itself

sounds like a serial killer at work they need follow the 14 year old who knew six of them. It is probably and older sibling or parent

To Laura, your feelings are completly normal. your self (meaning just that) has built a instinct, that is evolution proved. Do not worry for your heart is no different and hope is a mainstay in a world tht is full of cowards who fufill thier hateful dominence in a place where they feel invincible to conseqeunce,unbeknownst to those foolish souls thier is still a reaction and you felt that reaction. So has many other people that are pure of heart. You are not weak by any measure, in fact this qaulity makes you very strong. not the robot idea, but the humanity you show inspires me that hope is living in a place where constant attack can kill ones faith in the belief in hope. Be a robot on the net but keep the great gift you have and never give in to that thinking in your daily life for that would mean these Evil cyberwhores will win, that is not an option we as a people all need to have people like you to give us hope. I am truly inspired by your comment thank you for taking the time. It made my day. newbrag's comment pertaining to rats hold the answer we all need to better understand the false reality (warren b) that is truly an experiment of people on the grandest scale. thank you newbrag for your input it was enlightening and important to my own beliefs. i appreciate it very much. both comments combined are very important to my theroy. People check-out all the time and where i reside suicide is a normal event, personally i have had 2 friends commit the act. But a rebuttal to newbrags statement, we have the highest suicide rate in the U.S but we have the least people 500,000 can you please give me insight from your prespective on this issue. thanks K.J

The internet is not to blame. The teens may have been saddend by reading the postings on the website. They all knew eachother and it was sad for them. I also think that it was a cry for help. The posting should have been monitored. It's hard enough to be a teen and they do cry for help before doing drastic things but nobody listens.
I also think that it could be murders. 17 is alot of poeple for such a small community. Thats a big number. The murderer could also be a reader of this website. He knows which kids are feeling suicidal and they have already left a suicide note of sorts. So he's in the clear.
He probly knows all the kids personally. If he didnt do it at least he helped them, or incourgaed them to do it. A teacher or old man on the courner? I don't know. They need to check the crime scences for fingerprints. There has to be soemthing thats been left out.

weird end of the world stuff..alas

I could not prove if suicide is a guaranteed ticket to hell. Yes or No, In no way is suicide good. The idea of rationalizing suicide should be removed immediately. The devil wants to destroy you and bring you to hell. Personally, I believe most suicidal feelings are demonic they do not seem natural to me. God does not want you to kill yourself, He wouldn't have given you life if He willed this. You have one life, and then the judgment so be wise today.

why are they blaming myspace/bebo for this? this article just makes me roll my eyes. i don't know much about bebo, but EVERYONE has a myspace. and there are many people on it who don't choose to kill themselves, so i don't think the internet has anything to do with it (or atleast not in the way they're implying). people are lazy and when it comes to young people blame everything on the internet. the freaking internet didn't hang these kids, they did it themselves!

This is such a sad story and I feel like someone could of done something about this. Why aren't they saying anything more about it? They hardly said much, so how can we understand? I wish we could learn more about this story. As a lot of you said, there had to be some kind of signs that parents should have seen. A lot of these parents work so many hours, thanks to our economy, that they're missing out on the most important things.
God Bless all of their families.

If these suicides happened once or twice and had that site in common? Then I'd say that's a coincidence but 17 times...17. 17 times is not a coincidence, something's going on atleast investigate the site's home base and try to get a record of their IP addressess and any of their friends maybe there should be some sort of survellance just until the killings err "suicides" are completely averted.

This has happened to kids before the internet came about. For some reason teens think this is a way out. Troubled teens look at this as a way to "fix" what is wrong. I am 45 years old and this happen when I was young so the internet is not to blame. I knew three people who commited suicide very close together they all had some kind of problem they felt they could not solve or they felt would never go away. Each one of these teens had one thing in common..they felt they only had each other to talk to so when the first one commited suicide the others followed. I don't think that it was planned. I think that the first death was just one more thing that made them sad and sent them over the edge. After the first girl had commited suicide I heard one of them say "I have one less person to talk to". By the way this was a average middle class neighborhood. I have worked with troubled teens over the years and they have a lot to say so if you are a parent listen to them don't talk or yell at them when they have a problem that seems little. If a teen is talking about something it is VERY important to them. This is the number one complaint I hear "my parents don't talk or listen to me because they don't think my ideas or problems are important" or "they don't have time to listen" that to me is so sad please listen to your children they have so many questions that need to be answered.

THE INTERNET IS NOT TO BLAME. You're looking at people who knew each other, had trouble coping with loss and life as it is, and like a multi-car pile-up made consious decisions to end their suffering.

there are two scenario's to this situation. One, Parents should govern the internet, or teach their children, at a small age the true uses of internet, (if the children had happiness in the home, there would be no need to post anything in their websites negative), and Two, The Lord chooses when to take his children.

This reminds of movies like the ring. scary spooky, man.

Don't blame the websites. Blame the dumb kids or the dumb parents. Those kids have obviously overreacted, and it was the parents' job to monitor them online.