Like many other people have commented, I feel so horrible for the way that Michael Henderson’s family was treating following the seventh grader taking his own life. I would be devastated to have lost someone that I cared about and then had strangers who learned of the tragedy over the Web mocking my situation.

Like Kristen, I had never heard of the term “trolls” before reading the New York Times article.  It kills me to think of how much time people waste doing mean and hurtful things, like “intentionally disrupt[ing] online communities.”  I will never be able to use the phrase acronym “LOL” (what I considered to be a funny joke or comment shared between friends) again without thinking of the pride trolls take in their evil “Lulz” success/scores.

All I could think about was the motherly reminder, “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.”  Would Jason Fortuny want other people “pushing [his] buttons”?  I just don’t understand how others can stand to have their feeligns hurt or hurt the feelings of other.

I also think its interesting that Sherrod DeGrippo wanted to get rid of bloggers since they are “filth” and a “bunch of reatards.”  In my opinion, I think it’s the other way around and the trolls are the filth, the retards.

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