As I see it, we all make foolish decisions as a result of our being gullible in wanting to be recognized. It is easy through the internet to get into contact with others and strangers you've never even met with before(implying you don't know them or their intentions).
Being a young girl, or boy, you're taught to compete with others as that is how we have been taught by our parents and elders and not realizing its madness, we teach it to our children and preach it to our peers.
Now, what I mean with wanting to be recognised, is that us stupidly not realising the utter madness in all this comparison, being bombarded with this dull way of thinking every day, proceed to believe in some absurd branch of "reasoning", that there is worth in, that there is something to be recognised for by exposing our bare selves to others.
I can't for all in the world hate or say 'suit yourself' to someone whom has done what this girl did when she flashed herself over the net.
She was poorly treated by society, that is ,people around her and the ways that make up society, relations, essentially guided by our selfishness.
Also, how do you think a person whom is pressed by threats such as having a(I'm pretty sure she thought of it as one) stupid old mistake being spread around, feels about it?
I'm pretty damn sure it isn't unrealistic to say that people will look down on someone and be disgusted with a person, condemning him/her even, if it were to be revealed that he/she had done something like this earlier. I believe her fears, anxiety, were justified and just by looking at how Amanda lost her friends as a result of a facebook page, which undoubtedly reflected only this certain man's view on it all, it was proven.
What I'm trying to point out is that she probably didn't think of herself better than what we usually think of cockroaches or other creatures parasitic of others(nothing ill meant towards parasites, it's just a metaphor). She most likely deemed herself unworthy of any kind of good things coming her way, which is probably a huge reason as to why she even considered getting together with someone so shallow he is an embarrassment to all those genuinely trying as couples.
How could she resist?
She was known as someone whom flashes herself to others.
I'm pretty sure one seeks company in those moments, meaning support, and his lie about liking her, her still being gullible, craving for a way out of her misery, escaping what horrors haunted her, got the better of her and she did what she did.
I'm pretty sure, and it isn't even near as horrible for me as it WAS for her, that someone so lonely as her, wouldn't stand a chance in the world resisting the temptations and promises of a way out of her own misery.
I'm sure because I'm escaping reality myself, day in, day out, and it's causing me despair.
I tell myself to never give in to temptations, but I do because in all my misery, it seems so damn sweet, this damnable "fruit" called escapism, and it is all so much easier to just give in to it rather than seeing it eye-to-eye.
So, does it tell us anything?
The fact that people can so easily condemn another? That people are so quick to shy away from and ignore what is so obviously true(rumours/assumptions and someone's misery as a result of these)?
I think it tells us of how truly mad our society is as a result of how little some people care for others, if at all.
We care not for finding out the whole truth when we judge someone, because we might be mistaken. We don't want to be mistaken because it would mean people, whom are just as shallow as ourselves and just as quick to jump ship when things looks bad, would look down on us, and this hurts us!
Now what to do about all this?
I know I'll try my best to deal with my own problems, because I want to help avoid things such as what happened to this girl by being able to help them when I'm unburdened by what burdens me now, because I can't stand to see how ill treated she and many others has been and are being, no matter how much my own problems hinders me from going all out in helping them.
I know it seems selfish to put so much focus as I do on my own problems, but I know not doing so results in inadequate assistance to those in need.
I'll try to do what I can in the meanwhile as should we all, care we for others.