"Online 'Trolls' Target Family Tribute Pages"

[Fabio]

Read more here: http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Internet-Trolls-Target-Facebook-Tribute-Pages-Families-Shocked-At-Cruel-Comments-And-Pictures/Article/201104215970613?lpos=UK_News_Second_Technology_Article_Teaser_Region__0&lid=ARTICLE_15970613_Internet_Trolls_Target_Facebook_Tribute_Pages%3A_Families_Shocked_At_Cruel_Comments_And_Pictures

"A "community" of internet users is targeting grieving relatives by posting cruel comments and pictures to memorial pages created on social networking sites.

Some so-called "trolls" have attacked a site dedicated to a teenager who hanged himself after being bullied over the web.

"It's organised, they target recent memorial pages and it's mostly the young where they can cause the most upset," said Robert Mullaney, whose son, Tom, took his own life.

"They go on there - two, three, four of them - they leave vile comments and they sit back and see who responds the most.

"I assume they have some kind of points system. It's a sick game."

Tom was 15 when his dad discovered his body at the family home in Bournville, Birmingham, last year.

He and wife Tracy were at first comforted by tributes left on Facebook, but then horrified by other, vicious postings.

One by a user calling himself 'Pro Fessor' read: "Good news everybody I got a shovel from the store, now us facebook bullies can get to little Tom Mullaney."

[Alarba]

The risks of using the internet tsk tsk tsk.....

[Chase]

This is beyond trolling. This is where it becomes sick and demented...

[Salmonella]

Awfull... I hope the authorities will act uppon this.. although they probably wont

[JDC]

This is no longer trolling. This is an act of evil. If anything, I'd wish someone tracked down their IPs and shot the "trolls" dead.
 
Still, Tom was stupid to hang himself after getting bullied on the internet.

[Marauder]

This is no longer trolling. This is an act of evil. If anything, I'd wish someone tracked down their IPs and shot the "trolls" dead.

You can't be possibly serious. Sure, I agree, it's repulsive and vile, but shooting the trolls? No. Perhaps blocking their internet access or stuff like that, but not capital punishment.

[KhornateMonkey]

I feel sorry for Tom's family. Those so called "Trolls" should have more punishment than just there accounts being blocked!

[Daco]

>people committing suicide because of web bullying

ahahahahahahaha

I mean, seriously?

[Squeak]

Anyone else rack up over 9000 points?

[Que]

>people committing suicide because of web bullying

ahahahahahahaha

I mean, seriously?

This is my thought as well.
I don't support these so-called trolls particular actions in any way, but their parents should not allow them to even have a computer unless they are capable of handling such things like this. Hanging yourself because of some bullying kids over the internet, no way.

[Antonio.]

Just lol...

[(tr)Ollie]

Anyone else rack up over 9000 points?

The last time I checked, mine was over 9000.

[Wolfe]

News women got trolled hard... " They say their community overs 9000 and is growing"

Still, i'd understand suiciding from bullying at school or whatever, but on the internet ? It's like, you can't take shit serious here :P

[Daco]

News women got trolled hard... " They say their community overs 9000 and is growing"

I came buckets.

Man.

[Jamal]

Every person on the internet who seems to be posting out of the ordinary or unlike you want them to = troll....

The story itself is sad, the kid dying, but it is also sad because he took his own life for people posting over the internet. Some souls are not as strong as others, I suppose. May he rest in peace.