Random things from a random gamer.
There’s a new video circulating the Internet and everyone seems to be getting a lot of laughs out of it. I’ve posted it below, but let me say my part on this first.
Addictions of almost any type can develop at almost any age and are typically exaggerated by the lack of emotional and societal support. In the case of this video, we have a young kid, not even a teenager, who has developed an obvious addiction to MySpace. It is an unhealthy addiction that may mean that this kid does not interact with others in real life enough and may develop a long history of hiding away on the Internet, looking for anyone that will listen to him. But it’s fairly obvious that he also is not supported by his family well enough to curb the need for the addiction, and in fact may be driven more and more towards the addiction by them and others.
People out there laugh because they think it’s funny that this kid screams when his brother and friends taunt him with sending messages to others from his MySpace account or even deleting the account as a whole, and video tape all of it to publish on the Web. But I cry for the kid who has had to attach himself to a community Web site because his family obviously isn’t there for him, providing for him the friendship and help that he needs. I cry even more knowing that the chances that this kid will try to kill himself has just shot up a ridiculous amount. I cry even more knowing that this kid’s life as it is now will be comparatively ruined by the actions of a family member.
This is why violence occurs in those so young today. Kids take guns to school when people refuse to accept and/or listen to them because they’ve been pushed into a corner and no one has helped them out of it and most tend to push them further into those corners. Kids also take their own lives when they feel they have nothing else to live for and that everyone, even their own family, has turned against them.
To the people that laugh, I say you’re the number one reason I don’t want to bring a child into this world, and that makes me cry the most.
April 4th, 2008 at 5:08 am
This is so sad. That poor boy is going to have major issues in life. (If he lives through high school.) The brother and his friends need to be dealt with. I elect Bear.
April 7th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Where are this child’s parents? Where have they been all along, while this situation was developing? This is the kind of thing that leads to school shootings and other tragedies. I couldn’t watch all of it. I got about halfway through, I think, which means this must go on for at least another 3 minutes.
It breaks my heart. This is why I homeschooled my child for the first four years and worked from home until he got into high school. Call me an overprotective mother if you want, but I knew what he was doing and where he was at all times. The lines of communication were always open. I’m sure there is a lot he hasn’t told me - but he knows that he can, and he has told me things that I probably wouldn’t have told my mom. At least, not until years afterward.
This is why you *would* make a good parent, Loki.