Amanda Todd's life story

On October 10, 2012 a girl named Amanda Todd committed suicide due to an immense amount of bullying on the internet and at school.

It started with her and her friends meeting new people on a webcam site on the internet, she said the people on the internet called her beautiful, perfect, stunning and they wanted her to flash them, and she eventually and unfortunately did. Not too long after she got a message on facebook from a guy who she didn’t even know and she didn’t think he knew her, he said “If you don’t put on a show for me i’ll send the picture of your boobs to everyone” and he knew her address, school, and names of the her friends and family.

On Christmas break there was a knock on her door at 4am, it was the police saying the photo was everywhere, after she heard this she spiraled into anxiety, depression, and ptsd, she started getting into drugs and alcohol when she moved and the ptsd and depression got worse, a year later someone followed her and all her friends, the person had her naked in his profile picture, she lost her friends and everything got worse again. She moved and again and it got a little better, she still didn’t have friends. She started talking to a guy and he liked her and led her on, but he had a girlfriend. One night he told her to come meet him and that his girlfriend was on vacation, so she did, and she regrets it, a week later she got a texts from his girlfriend saying she was coming to Amanda’s school with 15 other people, the girlfriend came and beat Amanda up, she was left alone.

She was so alone and sad she attempted suicide, but they saved her. On facebook she saw people saying that they wish she died, and thought she should kill herself. So she moved again started another school, but people kept harassing her, saying she should try killing herself again. She got depressed, anxious, she couldn’t go out or interact with people out of her house, she felt as though sh didn’t want to live anymore, so she took her life.

Immediacy - I think Immediacy plays into this because as soon as she showed herself, it spread everywhere and everyone saw it.

Permanency - I think Permanency plays into this because she keeps moving but people keep seeing it and keep harassing her.

Lack of Control - I think Lack of Control plays into this when she can’t take it down and everyone has it, an example of this is when the man posts her picture all over the internet and she had no control of it.