I've seen a commercial for a new 'reality show' about how 'the internet ruined my life'.  First of all, the internet didn't ruin your life, asshole...YOU did.  If you hadn't have posted that story/picture/confession in the first place, you wouldn't be in the situation in which you find yourself.  Anyone who goes on social network sites to post every little thing about their lives should expect to be humiliated and ridiculed.  It's human nature to attack those who are 'weaker' than ourselves.  And in this society, when you go online to whine about how pathetic your life is, you are showing belly to everyone who reads it.  So expect to be attacked.  Maybe, with enough 'encouragement' from your 'peers', you'll grow a pair and stop expecting everyone else to 'save' you.

Secondly, it is absolutely PATHETIC how people always want to blame someone else for their misfortunes.  Life sucks.  Get over it.  Take responsibility for your own life.  No one held a gun to your head and made you put up that extremely humiliating picture of you posing in the mirror to show off your belly flab.  No one held you over a flaming pit to force you to write that illiterate, horribly written, badly spelled story on a fanfiction site.  Nobody shoved a stick of dynamite up your ass and threatened to light it if you didn't confess your unrequited love for your furby, or your dalmatian, or your polo pony.  The point is, you were not forced to expose the minutiae of your life to hundreds of thousands of voyeurs who troll the internet looking for that next loser to rake over the coals.  Before you hit 'send', or before you hit 'publish', re-read it three times, then have some independent party read it a few times (and your mom, sister, cousin, or bestest friend don't count), and then have someone who writes semi-professionally look it over a few times.  Hell, have an English teacher scan it a couple of times.  Get as much input as you can BEFORE you post it.  Understand, however, that, no matter how well-written or well photoshopped something is, people are still going to rag on it.  We can't help ourselves.  The nature of the beast, don't you know.

Finally, don't expect that, just because you post something 'honest' and 'meaningful' on the internet that people are going to come crawling out of the woodwork, seeking your sage and wise advice on their problems.  It don't work that way.  The only people who would come to you for that kind of thing are the same kinds of losers who post on the internet in the first place.  It saddens me that schools no longer teach any kind of critical thinking.  We as a society can't think past the end of our noses.  We have no capacity to examine a problem closely and come up with a viable and logical solution.  We run to everyone else for that, and they are just as pathetically stupid as we are.  The few of us capable of this kind of thinking keep our heads down, so that we aren't inundated with stupid pleas for help in solving problems that a bright five year old can fix.  It's sad, really, how dumb we're getting.  And the internet is at the forefront of that stupidity.