Jessi Slaughter

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Technology/jessi-slaughter-viral-tweens-violent-online-rant-spurs/story?id=11224731&tqkw=&tqshow=GMA&page=1

  This article is about a seventh grader from Florida, who posted videos on the internet addressing all the people who were cyber bullying her. She said many inappropriate things in her videos, such as "Because you hater-b*****s? You're just, like, jealous of me."This caused even more negative attention, and many anonymous online users found her home address, her full name, and her phone number and Jessi Slaughter started receiving death threats.
  She posted another video, this one in which she was crying and her parents yelling could be heard in the background. Her father appeared on video and started yelling all of the people who had been threatening his daughter. When the threats didn't subside, Jessi Slaughter was put into police protection. A detective came to her house and taught her how to use the computer properly. Jessi went on the show Good Morning America, in which she said she was glad that she had posted the videos because it cleared a lot of things up, and that she would continue using the Internet despite the death threats.
  I think that this issue is important because it proves how powerless people are to anonymous people on the Internet. An 11 year old girl was receiving death threats for posting a video that was offensive, but completely harmless. Obviously, according to this story, and many like it (such as Katja Puschnik, the girl who was anonymously posted throwing puppies into a river, only days later was receiving death threats), no matter who you are people can find out everything about you through the Internet.
  I want to know why there isn't an age limit on social networks on the Internet. I think that it is the parents' responsibility to know what their children are doing on the computer. I also want to know how these people are able to find out information about everyone they want to, because I find that very terrifying.