Us? If you mean those of us discussing it here, well, maybe a little, but most of this particular "us" are already taking a pro-active approach to safety. If you mean "us" as in the general public then no. There will be knee jerk reactions on both sides of the fence for this one and folks will ***** and moan for a week or two and then the story will be forgotten. I don't see this as a technology problem at all. Technology just happens to be what goes into a head line to grab the eye of the average reader now a days. It's the latest avenue of delivery for bullying. Personally, I think that the comments of "We need to teach our kids how to handle technology" or "We need to teach our kids about safety on the net" are missing the point entirely. The phrase needs to be "We need to be parents and step up and teach our children how to be quality citizens of our society." It wouldn't have mattered if they were scratching messages on a frickin' rock and tossing it back and forth. The problem here is that we have two children who thought that it was ok to use violence of an extreme nature to settle a problem. One used psychological violence, the other used physical violence. Technology? Not a problem as it allows me to sit here with my cat in my lap and dog at my feet and discuss things I find interesting with all of you (whom I also find interesting) without any problems. People who refuse to be parents and a society in general who has decided that this kind of behavior is acceptable... that's the damn problem.
