I don’t know if you fully understand the concept of “mean teens” in today’s world.
For instance, my son is being harassed on Facebook by some teens he barely knows. Ok, he has to live with them tearing him apart. But they are now putting down his mom, me. Ok, so I laughed and told them what could I possibly care about two low lifes with no diploma, no jobs, disrespecting me? Ha
But now they’ve upped it to tell him that his father committed suicide because of him. That’s low. I wanted to beat them up myself, only I don’t do such.
He doesn’t even know why they are doing this, they just don’t like him.
Tell him to delete them as friends, why is he communicating with them? If they have constructed a page criticizing him, it is very easy to have the page pulled by reporting it as abuse.
Electronics have made for a difficult new landscape for parents of teens. I, too, have been through a long ordeal with a teen and a long-distance invisible boyfriend.
It is thoroughly creepy and figuring out what to do about it is bewildering.
How can they harass him on FB unless they are “friends”—these “friends” can at least be excluded from his wall, and he can avoid visiting their walls.
The younger the teen, the more likely you can contact the parent. And they should be reminded that whatever they put on FB will live forever.
90% of the time, I really hate facebook. Do you think you could get him to either shut it down or just avoid it most of the time?