Who is Amanda Todd and is everything that happened to her a lie?

[Buzzy]

I want to know who she is because everything I see on Facebook is about her.My friend said she is dead but he saw her YouTube videos and thinks its all a hoax, it's a setup for attention. What's the real story? I'm confused.

[Betty]

As drank bleach cause she's a whiny bitch

[Chris]

Its not hoax... It was in the news all over canada

[Lupines]

Eww you have a really creepy friend.

Humans make mistakes it shouldn't cause them such pain they can't deal with and end up paying for that mistake with their life. She knew she made a mistake and admitted to it and she's not the first girl to flash and then to never get that picture back. She's a kid for heaven's sakes and that is the major time that humans make mistakes.

She's got more spotlight because of the issue of bullying. It's a wow story because the bullies would sink so low as to call for the death of another human being and continually taunt her, and knowing she was on that brink, to encourage her to do it.

The issue of her flashing doesn't have much to do with it in my opinion. She could have made some other mistake the bullies still would have picked up with that and run with it.

I don't fault her because people are human and make mistakes, esp. kids. I fault the parents for giving her web cam access and not supervising her initially to begin with. And I fault the bullies for making her mistake a capital crime. And I fault people like your friend that enable bullying by blaming the victim.

[Arctic Spirit]

It not a hoax, I live just a few miles from where she used to live. It was in all the Federal Canadian and Provincial newspapers, on CBC CTV and radio news. The story of this tragic event has been covered here in Canada. Here are the gruesome details:


On October 7, 2012, 15 year old Amanda Michelle Todd posted a YouTube video (at end of article) in which she showed a series of flashcards describing her experiences of being the target of bullying both on-line and in real life that had been going on for years. Watching the video and reading her story is both startling and perplexing. Why would classmates and total strangers go so far in displaying such cruelty towards Amanda? On October 10, 2012, Amanda committed suicide in her home in Port Coquitlam, B.C., Canada.

According to Amanda's YouTube story, this whole mess started three years ago when she was in 7th grade. She was using video chat on the Internet to meet new friends and during one of these sessions, somebody asked her to show her breasts and she did so. A year later, an anonymous user who seemed to know everything about her including her address, her school, her relatives, and her friends began blackmailing her: give me a show or I will send the pictures of your "boobs" around. The pictures began circling on the Internet and from there everything spiralled out of control. She began to suffer depression and anxiety not just from the pictures themselves, but from being subsequently ostracized by her peers. She turned to drugs and alcohol and had self-mutilated herself. She was even physically attacked at her school.

She tried to commit suicide once by drinking bleach but was rushed to the hospital and successfully treated. Amanda moved to another city to live with her mother but the postings on the Internet only got worse telling her to try a different bleach next time and expressing hope she would kill herself. On October 10, the bullies got their wish. But it still didn't stop. Tribute sites to the girl have received hateful comments and offensive images. (National Post Oct 14/2012)

This is a sad story, a very sad story. I am sure parents, pundits, and police will be analysing this one and making recommendations left, right, and center about the dangers of the Internet, posting pictures on the Internet, and doing anything remotely sexual on the Internet but to me, the far-reaching issue is the bullying. Why would one human being bully another? Why would one human being take some sort of pleasure in seeing another human being suffer pain, feel humiliation, and even commit suicide? Why is it that a particular person, in this case Amanda, becomes the lightning rod for the anger and hate of the bully and even for those who may part of the bully's audience? It is so startling to see this group mentality that I have to ask myself with apprehension if one day the crowd may not turn and make me the target of their displeasure.

I read the Wikipedia article Bullying but discovered that the supposed reasons explaining such behaviour are not necessarily conclusive. Studies have shown a variety of motives for bullying: envy, resentment, self-esteem, arrogance or narcissism. Bullying can be a tool to conceal shame or anxiety or boost self-esteem and by demeaning others, the abuser can feel empowered.

RIP Amanda Todd

[Shawn Robin]

Amanda Todd is a Canadian teenager who was bullied so much, she went nuts and killed herself.

Unlike the USA, Canada has truth-in-journalism laws.
In Canada, it's illegal for the Canadian media to broadcast false or misleading news.
So your friend's totally wrong. It's not a hoax or a set up.
That girl's dead and police are investigating:
Link - http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/R...story.html

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are Canada's national police force.
They're also the world's most famous police force.
They're legendary in law enforcement because the Mounties "always get their man".
So the bullies responsible for tormenting Todd are totally screwed cause they will all be caught.