RobinN
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I am sure this could make a movie of the week ... here is the second half of our emotional saga.
Along with the hassles at the ice rink...
Rebecca befriended a girl and they were good chums for about a year. I have met the parents and watched this saga unfold. The girl seemed to have some seizure issues, but we are not sure if they were a previous disorder or if they began after she met Rebecca. This is still unclear, but I give the girl the benefit of the doubt, because I don't want people prejudging Rebecca. This relationship was a typical teenage friendship. However, then I noticed that this girl had a romantic interest in Rebecca. Rebecca actually dealt with this better than I could have at that age, but it eventually had some very strange components to the story, so Rebecca cut off the relationship.
I first noticed some troubles when I received a threatening email that supposedly came from Rebecca's Yahoo acct. to my email, which she has never uses. Rebecca was asleep at the time. So then I went and looked at her Myspace page. At first glance it appeared okay, but then after reading some of the questions that Rebecca answered it was obvious that someone had hacked her acct and was changing it. I attempted to change the password and then clean up the contents. But obviously whoever had hacked the account knew enough about Rebecca to answer the security questions. I sent letters to Myspace, then went to bed. It was 2 am. The next day there was porn all over her Myspace page. Her Facebook had also been hacked into, her passwords changed, her Google mail which she uses had the password changed as well. Facebook wouldn't speak to me, unless I used the mail account set up with Facebook. This was impossible because the acct was unaccessible.
Really nasty, mean things were sent out to all of Rebecca's contacts. As well as to a group page at her high school. This was taking it much too far. At that point I contacted the police. I was told there was nothing they could do. I did take page shots of some of the contents, but they said it would be very difficult to find out who exactly was doing this. A report was taken. Rebecca was warned about having pages like this. Come on, many are doing it safely, and for a kid like this sometimes you don’t want to be so darn different. I do constantly monitor these pages, and most of her friends have always known that.
Then we find out that “this person” the Hack-ie, had taken out a page that was somehow connected to Rebecca's school group page on Facebook, titled something about “the girl I hacked into”. Many of Rebecca's friends joined that group, and she was told it was basically a TRASH Rebecca page. Ever seen Mean Girls? Well Rebecca's closest friend signed up for that page.
I have been trying to contact the officer on her campus, but she has not yet returned my call. I think I will go over there in a bit and try to discuss this with her. We know who started the last group page, but it no longer exists. I am not sure if they can meet with other students and get the low down, and use that as a reason to talk with this girls family or not.
Rebecca has had to leave her group of friends because she does not feel wanted. Luckily she is wanted in the student store, and has some friends that stay with her there. She works and keeps busy. How awful to spend your day hiding out, and have who-knows-how-many-people talking about you.
Luckily she has her therapist to cry to this afternoon.
I ache for her.
Going to get her a really yummy sandwich right now, from Fresh Gourmet... while all the other kids have to eat the cafe crud.
Thanks for letting me vent
(and yes ... she learned how to make a password that isn't easily figured out)
Along with the hassles at the ice rink...
Rebecca befriended a girl and they were good chums for about a year. I have met the parents and watched this saga unfold. The girl seemed to have some seizure issues, but we are not sure if they were a previous disorder or if they began after she met Rebecca. This is still unclear, but I give the girl the benefit of the doubt, because I don't want people prejudging Rebecca. This relationship was a typical teenage friendship. However, then I noticed that this girl had a romantic interest in Rebecca. Rebecca actually dealt with this better than I could have at that age, but it eventually had some very strange components to the story, so Rebecca cut off the relationship.
I first noticed some troubles when I received a threatening email that supposedly came from Rebecca's Yahoo acct. to my email, which she has never uses. Rebecca was asleep at the time. So then I went and looked at her Myspace page. At first glance it appeared okay, but then after reading some of the questions that Rebecca answered it was obvious that someone had hacked her acct and was changing it. I attempted to change the password and then clean up the contents. But obviously whoever had hacked the account knew enough about Rebecca to answer the security questions. I sent letters to Myspace, then went to bed. It was 2 am. The next day there was porn all over her Myspace page. Her Facebook had also been hacked into, her passwords changed, her Google mail which she uses had the password changed as well. Facebook wouldn't speak to me, unless I used the mail account set up with Facebook. This was impossible because the acct was unaccessible.
Really nasty, mean things were sent out to all of Rebecca's contacts. As well as to a group page at her high school. This was taking it much too far. At that point I contacted the police. I was told there was nothing they could do. I did take page shots of some of the contents, but they said it would be very difficult to find out who exactly was doing this. A report was taken. Rebecca was warned about having pages like this. Come on, many are doing it safely, and for a kid like this sometimes you don’t want to be so darn different. I do constantly monitor these pages, and most of her friends have always known that.
Then we find out that “this person” the Hack-ie, had taken out a page that was somehow connected to Rebecca's school group page on Facebook, titled something about “the girl I hacked into”. Many of Rebecca's friends joined that group, and she was told it was basically a TRASH Rebecca page. Ever seen Mean Girls? Well Rebecca's closest friend signed up for that page.
I have been trying to contact the officer on her campus, but she has not yet returned my call. I think I will go over there in a bit and try to discuss this with her. We know who started the last group page, but it no longer exists. I am not sure if they can meet with other students and get the low down, and use that as a reason to talk with this girls family or not.
Rebecca has had to leave her group of friends because she does not feel wanted. Luckily she is wanted in the student store, and has some friends that stay with her there. She works and keeps busy. How awful to spend your day hiding out, and have who-knows-how-many-people talking about you.
Luckily she has her therapist to cry to this afternoon.
I ache for her.
Going to get her a really yummy sandwich right now, from Fresh Gourmet... while all the other kids have to eat the cafe crud.
Thanks for letting me vent
(and yes ... she learned how to make a password that isn't easily figured out)
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