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Bullying gone Technological: The Tragic Death of Megan Meier

Image Bully attack, aggression, bullying, abuse | Courtesy of need pix.com
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Arsema Abera

Arsema Abera

She never got to blow out the fourteen candles in front of her. She never wore that birthday tiara that she was so excited to show off. Most of all, she was never happy with the remaining minutes of her life.

Megan Taylor Meier was born in O’Fallon, Missouri, on November 6, 1992, to Christina “Tina” Meier and Ronald “Ron” Meier. Although she was described as a happy and bubbly girl who enjoyed spending time with her friends and family, life was never easy for young Megan.1 She struggled with weight problems, depression, and attention deficit disorder. When Megan was in third grade, she talked about committing suicide, and ever since then, she had been in the continuous care of a psychiatrist. By the time she reached eighth grade, things got better for Megan. She lost twenty pounds, she was on the volleyball team, and she was in a better mental state. All in all, it was a fresh start for Megan.2

Megan’s life changed when she was introduced to the popular social networking web, Myspace. Back when Facebook was still on the rise, teens were using Myspace as a platform to socialize, post pics, and talk. Some even went as far as opening fake accounts to talk or just have false identities and play pranks on each other. Megan and her friend Sara Drew were no different. Sara was the girl that lived four houses down, and they both were good friends. They opened a fake profile of a girl on My space to talk to boys. When Megan’s mom Tina found out, she was really disappointed by her daughter’s wrongdoings and banned her daughter from using Myspace ever again. And soon Megan had cut ties with her friend Sara and was in a constant on and off friendship.3

Social media refers to Internet-based applications that allow people to create and exchange content using digital network technologies. Over the years, social media has gained a wide audience, mostly teens. Teens are likely to be obsessed with social media because their underdeveloped frontal cortex cannot manage the distraction and temptations that come with social media. A survey showed that 86% of girls within the age of 15-17 have a social media profile, which is higher than that of boys in that same age group. They are primarily drawn to social media for personal connections and the opportunity to share activities with their followers and friends.4

“I’ve raised three kids, and the technology changed a lot from the time my first kid became a teenager to the time my third kid became a teenager,” said Waslick, chief of Child Psychiatry at Baystate Medical Center.5

For better or for worse, social media has had a huge impact on teens. It has made the spread of information much easier and faster. One can learn about people with varied backgrounds, enhance their creativity by sharing musical and artistic projects, collaborate on school projects outside of class, raise money for charity, and so on. However, not everything about social media is positive. Rather, it often comes with negative consequences, replacing face-to-face socialization with plastic screens, hindering teens from developing self-confidence and real-life social skills. Some other negative aspects of social media include cyberbullying, sexting, sleep deprivation, Facebook depression, and poor academic performance.6

Picture of social media icons on phone | Courtesy of Pick Pick

When she was almost fourteen years old, Megan begged her mother for a second chance on Myspace. Tina reluctantly agreed, but her agreement came with rules on how to use it. Megan had to use her computer in the main room with her parents around. Her parents would be the only ones to have the password to her Myspace account, and Megan had to run any friend request acceptance by her parents.7

Not long after she had re-opened her Myspace account, she received a friend request from a boy named Josh Evans. Evans claimed to be from Florida and had recently moved to O’Fallon. He told Megan that he played the guitar and drums and that he had come from a broken home. They shared a lot about themselves, so much so that Megan started to like him. However, Evans never bothered to share his contact information, and this was really sketchy to Tina. When Megan asked him for his phone number, he claimed that he didn’t have a cell phone and that his mother didn’t have a landline yet.8 Tina was hesitant about Evans, and she even went to the police department to figure out whether he was real, but nothing could be known.9

On Sunday, October 15, 2006, Megan received a disturbing message from Josh:

“I don’t know if I want to be friends with you anymore, because I’ve heard that you are not very nice to your friends.”10

Confused, Megan responded,

“What are you talking about?”11

But Josh never responded.12

The following day, Megan handed out invitations to her fourteenth birthday party. At the end of the day, she rushed back home to check if Josh had responded to her last message. Instead, she found out that he was sending her upsetting messages, and he was sharing their messages with others online. Tina, who was in a rush to get to work, saw that her daughter was really upset and told her to sign off, but Megan didn’t listen. Instead, she fought back using vulgar language.13

Later, when Tina called her daughter and asked her if she had signed off, Megan said,

“They are all being so mean to me.”14

Tina insisted that Megan sign off the website. Fifteen minutes later, Megan called her mother crying.

“They are posting bulletins about me. Megan is a slut. Megan Meier is fat.”15

Most people think of bullying as a childhood issue children will outgrow, but bullies are growing up and entering university campuses. Bullying refers to unwanted, violent, and unnecessary behavior among school-aged children that involves a real or observed power inequality. Bullying includes actions such as making threats, spreading rumors, attacking someone physically or verbally, excluding someone from a group, and sending embarrassing messages to another person. Bullying can occur in person or through technology, and it has serious and enduring negative effects on the mental health and overall well-being of youth. Bullying includes those who bully others and those who are bullied, as well as those who both bully others and are bullied by others, sometimes referred to as bully-victims.16

Savannah, on left, thinking “I wish my teammates would accept me.” Sophie, on right, thinking, “I want to talk to someone about kids pushing me around at school.” | October is National Bullying Prevention Month | Courtesy of Air Force Material Command

The negative consequences of bullying may include depression, anxiety, involvement in interpersonal violence or sexual violence, substance abuse, poor social functioning, and poor school performance, including lower grade point averages, standardized test scores, and poor attendance. Youths who report frequently bullying others and youths who report being frequently bullied are at increased risk for suicide-related behavior. Youths who report both bullying others and being bullied (bully-victims) have the highest risk for suicide-related behavior of any group involved in bullying.17

Technology has become a big part of young people’s lives and it plays an increasingly important role in their day-to-day activities. However, it has also become a platform for so many young people to bully each other. Cyber-bullying has become a serious problem for university students and can cause long-term effects on victims. Avenues for cyber-bullying include emails, blogs, text messages, and social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Twitter.18

Tina was angry at Megan for not listening to her and using vulgar language. Megan was furious at her for not taking her side, so she left the room yelling at her mom. As Tina got ready to eat dinner, she had this gut feeling that something was wrong. When she rushed to her daughter’s room, she found her hanging from her closet and immediately called the neighbor to perform CPR before rushing Megan to the hospital. However, Megan was pronounced dead the following day.19

After Megan’s death, her family sought a grief counselor to deal with the trauma of losing their daughter. When Megan’s dad, Rob, went to her MySpace account to see who this “Josh Evans” was, he saw that Josh had deleted his account and vanished into thin air. Even the FBI couldn’t trace where the messages came from. It wasn’t until a month later that the Meiers discovered who was responsible for their child’s death. One of their neighbors, Michele Mulford, told the Meiers that Curt and Lori Drew, who lived four houses down, had created “Josh” with their daughter Sara, a longtime friend of Megan’s. Even Mulford’s own daughter, also thirteen, had been given the password to the account and had sent at least one unkind message to Megan in Josh’s name. Unfortunately, when the Meiers took the Drews to trial, the law could not prosecute them and Megan’s death was ruled a suicide.20

Image of Cyberbullying | June 8, 2013, | Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Suicide, from the Latin word suicidium, is the act of taking one’s own life. Suicide is the second leading cause of death among teenagers in the United States and has become a growing concern. Suicide affects all teens, but some groups are at higher risk than others. Boys are more likely than girls to die from suicide. Of reported suicides in the 10 to 24 age group, 81% of deaths were males and 19% were females. Girls, however, are more likely to report attempting suicide than boys, a number likely to double up in the LGBTQ community.21

Cultural variations in suicide rates also exist. Native American/Alaskan Native youth have the highest rates of suicide-related fatalities, and a nationwide survey of youths in grades 9-12 in public and private schools in the United States found Hispanic youths were more likely to report attempting suicide than their black and white, non-Hispanic peers. Several factors can put a young person at risk for suicide: a history of previous suicide attempts, a family history of suicide, a history of depression or other mental illnesses, alcohol or drug abuse, stressful life events or loss, and easy access to lethal methods. However, having these risk factors does not always mean that suicide will occur.22

The Meiers were devastated by their daughter’s death but had to keep going. Tina and Rob got a divorce, and in December 2007, Tina launched the Megan Meier Foundation, a nonprofit organization against bullying that offers day-long workshops to more than 280,000 students, parents, and educators across 36 states. In August 2007, Tina opened the Megan Meier Foundation Resource Center in St. Charles, Missouri, which offers free counseling, assistance and support to kids who’ve been bullied and their families.23

Tina Meier speakers about bullying to parents | Courtesy of Flickr

“This started out of such tragedy,” she said, “then it became this passion and ultimately a mission I went into with full force.”24

  1. Lauren Collins, “Friend Game,” New Yorker, January 2008, 34-35. ↵
  2. Abigayle Korinne, “Cyberbullying: Megan Meier’s Story,” Hubpages, October 22,  2014,http://www.cuomosite.com/fc1112/Story%20of%20Megan%20Meier.pdf. ↵
  3. Abigayle Korinne, “Cyberbullying: Megan Meier’s Story,” Hubpages, October 22,  2014,http://www.cuomosite.com/fc1112/Story%20of%20Megan%20Meier.pdf. ↵
  4. Joseph Bednar, “Screen pass should young teens be active in social media?” Business West, (2017): 27-29, 36. ↵
  5. Joseph Bednar, “Screen pass should young teens be active in social media?” Business West, (2017): 27. ↵
  6. K. Y, “Social Media and Teens,” School Library Journal 64, no.10 (2018): 1-2. ↵
  7. Abigayle Korinne, “Cyberbullying: Megan Meier’s Story,” Hubpages, October 22, 2014,http://www.cuomosite.com/fc1112/Story%20of%20Megan%20Meier.pdf ↵
  8. Abigayle Korinne, “Cyberbullying: Megan Meier’s Story,” Hubpages, October 22, 2014, http://www.cuomosite.com/fc1112/Story%20of%20Megan%20Meier.pdf. ↵
  9. Lauren Collins, “Friend Game,” New Yorker, January 2008, 37. ↵
  10. Abigayle Korinne, “Cyberbullying: Megan Meier’s Story,” Hubpages, October 22, 2014, http://www.cuomosite.com/fc1112/Story%20of%20Megan%20Meier.pdf. ↵
  11. Abigayle Korinne, “Cyberbullying: Megan Meier’s Story,” Hubpages, October 22, 2014, http://www.cuomosite.com/fc1112/Story%20of%20Megan%20Meier.pdf. ↵
  12. Abigayle Korinne, “Cyberbullying: Megan Meier’s Story,” Hubpages, October 22, 2014, http://www.cuomosite.com/fc1112/Story%20of%20Megan%20Meier.pdf. ↵
  13. Abigayle Korinne, “Cyberbullying: Megan Meier’s Story,” Hubpages, October 22, 2014, http://www.cuomosite.com/fc1112/Story%20of%20Megan%20Meier.pdf. ↵
  14. Abigayle Korinne, “Cyberbullying: Megan Meier’s Story,” Hubpages, October 22, 2014, http://www.cuomosite.com/fc1112/Story%20of%20Megan%20Meier.pdf. ↵
  15. Abigayle Korinne, “Cyberbullying: Megan Meier’s Story,” Hubpages, October 22, 2014, http://www.cuomosite.com/fc1112/Story%20of%20Megan%20Meier.pdf. ↵
  16. P.P.Tsorai, T.J.Mudau, Nanga Raymond Raselekoane “Gender differences in cyber-bullying among first-year University of Venda students,” Gender and Behavior, no. 3 (2019): 13848. ↵
  17. “Bullying And Suicide.” In Teen Health Series: Suicide Information for Teens, edited by Keith Jones. 3rd ed. Omnigraphics, Inc., 2017. ↵
  18. “Bullying And Suicide,” In Teen Health Series: Suicide Information for Teens, edited by Keith Jones. 3rd ed. Omnigraphics, Inc., 2017. ↵
  19. Abigayle Korinne, “Cyberbullying: Megan Meier’s Story” Hubpages, October 22, 2014, http://www.cuomosite.com/fc1112/Story%20of%20Megan%20Meier.pdf ↵
  20. Lauren Collins, “FRIEND GAME” New Yorker, January 2008, 38-41. ↵
  21. “Suicide Among LGBT Youth,” In Teen Health Series: Suicide Information for Teens, edited by Keith Jones. 3rd ed. Omnigraphics, Inc., 2017. ↵
  22. “Teen Suicide Statistics,” In Teen Health Series: Suicide Information for Teens, edited by Keith Jones. 3rd ed. Omnigraphics, Inc., 2017. ↵
  23. Jeff Truesdell, “Finding Hope After My Daughter’s Suicide,” People 87, no.19 (2017): 74-75. ↵
  24. Jeff Truesdell, “Finding Hope After My Daughter’s Suicide,” People 87, no.19 (2017): 74-75. ↵

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    Nathan Castillo 1 Nov 2020 Reply

    This article is really important to read because cyber bullying is such a serious topic to talk about, and it should be talked about more. The writer did a great job informing us about cyber bullying and the effects it has. It was also really sad to hear about how the cyber bullies that were behind the fake account were not charged at all.

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    Alexandria Wicker 24 Oct 2020 Reply

    Cyber bulling is so an effective form of bullying in our society now. It is so sad to see how bullying effects not only students in person, but also teenagers online. This article is so important to read and cyber bulling needs to be talked about. This article gave great information on the topic of bullying and it gives insight of the bullied and the bully. This is an article that should be read by everyone. The effects of bullying are harsh and need to be looked at.

  3. Alyssa Ramos
    Alyssa Ramos 22 Oct 2020 Reply

    This is an important article to read and to show to others. Bullying has always been a problem, but once social media became a form of communication, it got worse. Fortunately, I have never been in this situation, but my sister has who is 5 years older than me. It is upsetting to see how mean and vicious people can be, and sometimes they do it just to be cool. I’m glad that schools are bringing awareness to bullying now because I feel as it is helping and showing the students that they have a safe place. The story provided about Megan was a tragic story, but I like how the author provided both sides.

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    Alyssa Vasquez 12 Oct 2020 Reply

    Bullying is a serious problem that needs to be fixed. Words ca be so hurtful. Some people can be doing their best not to fall apart and when people say something to them in a hurtful, judgmental way you never know how they’re going to take it. If you wouldn’t want someone saying that about you why say it to someone else. It’s horrible how many people commit suicide because of bullying and no one stops it till it’s too late.

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    Sophia Rodriguez 10 Oct 2020 Reply

    This article is important to listen to because cyberbullying is bound to happen because of all the different social media apps that are coming out. I feel terrible for what happened to Megan. I think it is sad how so many young children and teenagers are taking their lives. I did not know that 81% of deaths are males and 19% are women. I really hope that the world starts comprehending how cyberbullying affects others and how it could lead to many more deaths.

  6. Lindsey Ogle
    Lindsey Ogle 25 Sep 2020 Reply

    Cyberbullying is just as effective, if not more effective than regular bullying. Cyberbullying happens online so there is no way fo deleting it or taking it back, even if you do delete what you say it is still there forever. Also, with cyberbullying you cannot hear how the person who said it intended for the message to be displayed as so it makes all matters worse.

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    Manuel Rodriguez 13 Sep 2020 Reply

    The article offers an interesting perspective to the issues that many faced when social media platforms were introduced. As stated in the article, it revolutionized the speed at which information became accessible. Just like anything else, it was difficult for many to get used to and unfortunately it often times ended in situations similar to Megan Taylor Meier. However, I am glad that the culture of bullying on social media reduced significantly and have become platforms of politics, education, pop culture, and memes. This does not mean that bullying on social media has ended, therefore we have a major responsibility to take a stand against it when we see it.

  8. Reba Reyes
    Reba Reyes 13 Sep 2020 Reply

    Words have much meaning to them, they are not just words, they have an effect on the way that that person can act. Technology was made to make things easier and better for human to connect, not to bring them down. Cyber bullying has the same effect as bullying in general. It can hurt a person, and bring them down completely. This article brings out a topic that needs to be touched upon a lot more that what we really talk about.

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    Citlalli Rivera 6 Sep 2020 Reply

    This article did a great job at pushing back on the misnomer that bullying only happens amongst school-age children. “Bullies are growing up” is such a powerful way to explain this because there are bullies at any and every age. Megan Meier’s story is very tragic and it is disheartening to learn that the bullies behind the fake account were not charged with any blame to her death.

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    Alexis Lopez 6 Sep 2020 Reply

    This article is such an important read because I think bullying needs to be talked about a lot more than it is. The fact that technology is growing and expanding so is the different ways and forms of bullying. Arsema Abera gave so much information on the subject of bullying and highlights both sides of the bullied and the family. I also think it’s true that people don’t realize that bullying isn’t just in elementary or middle school but even more so in high school and college.

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