Ok, so I'm doing a report on suicides and I've come across some very sad stories. The MySpace mom incident, some usual school bullying...

But you know how people tell you when you want to ask a girl out, and they say the worse thing they can do is say "No"?

Well, this is the story about Ryan Halligan. A student that was bullied in High School. Now, I just want to say that this certain passage didn't drive him to die by suicide.

During the summer, my son approached a pretty “popular” girl from his school on-line and worked on establishing a relationship with her; I’m sure as a surefire way to squash the “gay” rumor before everyone returned to school in the fall. When the 8 th grade school year started up again, Ryan approached his new girlfriend in person. I’m sure he was never prepared to handle what happened next. In front of her friends she told him he was just a loser and that she did not want anything to do with him. She said she was only joking on-line. He found out that her friends and her thought it would be funny to make him think she liked him and to get him to say a lot of personal, embarrassing stuff. She copied and pasted there private IM exchanges into ones with her friends. They all had a good laugh at Ryan’s expense.
You can read the full story here.

There are some really stupid people in this world.

All I really want to say is, if you see someone who looks depressed or down, just say "Hi" to them. It'll make their day much much better.

Trust me.

Also, this thread isn't meant to put those down who want to ask a girl out. I'm just saying that some people should really think about what they're doing.