Reflection Collins

. In Collins' article "A Friend Game" she begins by setting up an idyllic scene of a neighborhood and the friendships that go along with that. Then your thrown into this other world of lies and deceptions, a place where no one "really" liked each other, someone in the article compared it to the Desperate Housewives neighborhood. It was all fake in real life and as it was on the Internet. I don't want to sound void of emotion because I do feel that what happened to Megan was terrible. I wish someone could have reached out to her she was obviously a sad teenager, and those times are always rough for most of us. But I do not believe that the Drew's should be persecuted because this is a typical teenage thing. People get bullied whether online or at school. It is something that all children deal with but I feel that Megan had other issues going on and this incident was the straw that broke the camels back. As stated in the article, Megan's conversation with "John" lasted months and in those months their conversations were all polite and made her happy. It seemed like there was only one conversation that ignited this flame and that was the last day of Megan's life. Also both parents were aware of the situation and none of them stopped it. There are many other elements that are going on in the story it's not just a false identity issue. This leads into my research paper about cyberethics which is interesting I might use something from this article in my project.