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While Jerks of the Web will not help you get any work done, or be a good resource for anything, it is certainly nice to see that some folks are a bigger jackass than I am. But let’s not try to kill folks, k?
Not all incidents of Web villainy have a humorous side. In 2006, a 13-year-old girl committed suicide after being harassed repeatedly on MySpace by someone she thought was an 18-year-old boy. After her death, it became clear that the boy was, in fact, a creation of the mother of one of the girl's former friends.