A teenager who took her own life after her parents banned her
from accessing her own Facebook page wrote a suicide note saying she
couldn’t live without the social networking site.
Aishwarya Dahiwal, 17, was found hanged in her room in the
western Indian city of Parbhani Wednesday night after an argument with
her parents over the excessive amount of time she spent on Facebook, as
well as the lengthy conversations she would have on her cellphone. “Like all parents, their intentions were only to ensure that
the girl did not go astray,” investigating officer G. H. Lemgude told
the Indo-Asian News Service. “They advised her to concentrate on her
technical studies and stay away from long mobile chats and social
networking sites.” In a suicide note she wrote shortly after the argument,
Aishwarya blamed her parents and the restrictions they put on her
Facebook use. “Is Facebook so bad?” she wrote. “I cannot stay in a home with such restrictions as I can’t live without Facebook.” Newsweek Pakistan says that, with Internet access
spreading rapidly across India, many high school students are ditching
their phones in favor of communicating exclusively over Facebook.
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