What's funny is that when I was in high school, my friends had the same LAN's, IRC's and Forums that we used to communicate with. But because This "WildWest internet" as the lady in the first episode calls it, is now inhabited by the popular kids and is much easier to access with less computer knowledge, it is now an epidemic. It reminds me of how shootings in inner city schools happened all the time with little to no news coverage until it was starting to show up in white, suburban, middle class schools. Then and only then did the mass media and hysteria begin. Of course its horrible that teens and preteens are trying to grow up too early but that has been going on for awhile now. It has just found a new medium.