Reid About It

Okay, this is even stranger than normal. Apparently in Japan, people are organizing internet suicide pacts, and killing themselves with people they've never met in real life.

Please, people. For the love of freshness, would you please just turn off the damn computer and go outside for once? I love the internet, and I've met some really cool people on it. But come on, we've gone from bulletin boards to chat rooms to instant messages to cybersex to online marriages to internet suicide groups.

B: "Hi, are you StaciQ5688? I'm BigJon82, nice to meet you."
J: "Thanks, you too."
B: "You really look nice. Your internet pictures don't do you justice."
J: "Very sweet of you to say, but I'm still going to kill myself in a few minutes."
B: "We can't even make out?"
J: "No, I just took a hundred sleeping pills and my breath is kind of funky."
B: "Oh. Well, crap. I guess I'll go ahead and kill myself too, then."

At some point, you actually have to go outside and catch a cab to where the people are, don't you? I'd like to think the people I'll wind up killing myself with will be old friends, and not just people I met on my "Dancing With The Stars" chat page.

And do you go to the chatroom with the express desire to find somebody to kill yourself with? Or do you just go for conversation, and wind up being so bored with it that you decide then to end it all? You know, based on some of the conversations I've had on the internet with Beevis and/or Butthead, I can see that.

B: So what's everybody think about the new Radiohead album?
MorbidAngle6969: show ur boobs
TexDog5440: Anybody here from Texas?
DeezNutz96: u suck!!!!
B: Screw it. Anybody else feel like killing themselves?
KristinJ: Right here.
BobCharls74: Where can we meet?

Remember kids, people don't kill people. The internet kills people.