Phoebe Prince couldn’t even find peace on Facebook. Phoebe Prince, a 15 year old in South Hadley, MA hung herself after being bullied by a group of teens from South Hadley High School called the “Mean Girls of South Hadley”. Although the teens are being charged for it, it will not replace the real life. Not only did the mean girls harm her physical life, they also ruined her online life. Even after death, the Phoebe Prince Facebook page was defiled by the venom of the Mean Girls of South Hadley, reports Fox News. According to Dr. Keith Ablow, the Mean Girls could have gathered an excellent deal of information with which to terrorize Phoebe Prince, including but not limited to her sensitive nature and malleable sense of self.
Phoebe Prince, Facebook and predators
People who are bullies can easily and quickly detect a weakness in those they bully as they did with Phoebe Prince Facebook, as Dr. Ablow suggests. Bullies such as this are fueled by a have to bring others down, so they develop quickly the ability to find their openings with efficiency.
Being a teenager is hard for anyone, but for a girl like Phoebe Prince, who was both pretty and unsure of her place in the world, it is particularly difficult. Although millions would prefer to be beautiful, if teenagers have no confidence then they’ll become targets for being attractive rather than being popular, as Dr. Ablow observed. Bullies will look for people who they think have no defenses to mount resistance.
The Mean Girls’ drug was hating suggests Dr. Ablow
“Dehumanizing her had to are intoxicating,” he told Fox. What would the point be otherwise? Ablow opines that getting information off of Phoebe Prince Facebook was a means to an end, or a high in this case. Considering how widespread social media like Facebook are today, it’s not hard to see how dangerous sensitive personal information could be in the wrong hands. Identity theft issues can arise and destroy credit while in the case of Phoebe Prince Facebook, it can destroy the psyche.
It a bully control possible?
Dr. Ablow suggests that “In a controlled population like a school system, it is possible, from early grades, to instill in young people a psychiatrist’s view of those who perpetrate violence toward others—as broken, rather than brazen; gripped by emotional disorder, rather than in control.” When bullies aren’t glamorized as James Dean-esque rebels anymore, then the cultural shift that is so needed can occur. Better methods than Detention and suspension should be used in schools since they’re ineffective Dr. Ablow feels. What is needed is concern, not scorn. Total removal and home schooling until a licensed psychologist or psychiatrist can assure a school the bully is no longer a threat to themselves or others. Parents or caregivers have to step up.
