I was reading this article today that made me think about social network sites and what they make people do….

The article is about what happened when friends of a murdered girl in the USA posted a memorial about her on My Space. The results are amazing and showed me the power of the internet.

So many people were ‘touched’ by her death that they wrote a comment on the page. For me some of these are really sad and stupid…one girl put a comment apologising about not putting a comment on because she was ‘working at the weekend’

It seems to me that people have gone a bit OTT over this…songs and poems have been written by people who never actually knew her!

I would only do something like this for people who I actually knew or this person had done something amazing in their lives.

The murdered teenager was just a normal teenager of 17, who was close to all her friends…she might have been a special person to her friends but to the rest of the world she is just another person who dies every day. I don’t mean this in a mean way but it is true.

My Space has its own little strange quirks. But if you are part of the ‘generation’ it is you life!

The article is on the media guardian website (http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/story/0,,1775072,00.html)

If you want to look at the My Space its www.myspace.com/loving_memory_anna and leave a comment if you must!