[DJ MacWoW]

The article said that everyone liked him, that he had a sense of humor and sunny smile. However he could have met an online bully.

[bgill]

However he could have met an online bully.

As if people can't tell some stranger to @#_^&#$_(* and then block them from their FB or ignore them until they get tired of talking to themselves. Kids take social networking too seriously. Hate to think what this world will be in a short 5 years with no one pulling their noses out of their iphones, etc. Or, at 17, he'd be graduated from HS and out of the house in 3-4 months if that were the problems. Bottom line, suicide is selfish. All that fuss over the cat and now he isn't around to make sure it doesn't got back to the pound. Sounds like it was more about himself than the cat.

[rollo tomasi]

"However he could have met an online bully."

Apparently this guy took pride in being a "grammar Nazi" on social media sites. If bullying was one cause then I guess he could dish it out (Rabid animal "rights" activists too) but could not take it.

Deeper issues are at work on the cause of offing himself.