Unfortunately, my W is now living with her parents, and disconnecting their internet would be inconvenient for them, because they both use it for work related matters. She's so addicted to the net that even if they disconnected her from the router and took the cable, she'd go up to Wal-Mart and buy a new one. They could do this every day and she'd follow suit until she was broke, and then she'd try to borrow the money or a cable from someone else.
Worse still, every thing I've feared about what those chatroom types is telling her is true beyond what I could have believed. Her mother said that she observed a comment someone made to W in Instant Messenger as her mother passed by her computer. The comment was pretty inflammatory to her parents, and at that moment she wanted to know what in the hell W was telling these people and what they were telling her. So, I worked a little mojo and accessed W's computer to both mine and her mother's horror. There's all sorts of crap. Textbook material. BEYOND textbook. There are death threats to me, illicit "cybersex" exchanges, plans to meet up, plans to shack up, you name it.
After what happened tonight, it's well and truly over, I'm afraid. She's addicted to the fantasy world of cyberspace, and is open, ready, and willing to chow down on all the bullshit people within it are telling her.
Sucks, but... nothing much I can do now. Maybe her parents will dump their land-based internet and get wireless via their cellphones, thereby cutting W off. Who knows? What I do know is that her parents, as owners of the home W is staying in rent free, are well within their right to deny her access to the net, but they have no real logistical solution to it.
Ah well... Live and learn, die and burn.
-Jon
My current sitch. Feedback and opinions greatly appreciated!
