"befriends.com" law and order episode
an underlying point went along the lines of how their mythical (yeah, right, right?) website of "befriends.com" should be held legally responsible for the death of a mom whose daughter blogged on the site for the same.
personally i await the day the buy-it-on-a-whim-of-an-impulse-while-manic.com sites are held more accountable for taking full monetary advantage of people's illnesses in the way they do. they get rich while people's lives can be easily destroyed at the simple click of a key. it is certainly one of the true curses of the instrument in our lives that is the internet.
guess i would be remiss if i didn't offer a fix. how about.......
a couple of log-on screens that one must, absolutely MUST click through and acknowledge first before continuing on to purchase an item. the content of that or those screens being that yes, one is in full control of one's faculties and yes, one's financial situation is such that one will still be able to provide food on the table, lights and heat in the house, and gas in the car that will take one to work the morning after making the very next will-happen-in-the-flash-of-a-keystroke intended online purchase.
yeah, i know, laughable at best, but if it saved one poor soul heartache, their familial relationships, possibly even their very life, it would be worth its weight in the multiple fur lined gold lamee jumpsuits they absolutely could not breathe another breath without.
