A scheduled speech at Georgia Highlands College by Tina Meier, whose 13-year-old daughter Megan committed suicide following online bullying on MySpace, has been postponed. The speeches were to be held at the Cartersville and Rome campuses, and school officials are working to reschedule.

Posted Oct. 25:

Georgia Highlands College presents the last of its fall speaker series on Monday, Nov. 9 at 7 p.m. at the Cartersville campus, and Tuesday, Nov. 10 at 7 p.m. at the Floyd Campus. Tina Meier will describe her daughter’s tragic suicide resulting from online bullying on MySpace, an online social networking site.

The Cartersville presentation takes place in the library at GHC/Cartersville and the Lakeview auditorium on the Floyd campus. Lectures are free to students and the public.

In October 2006 Tina Meier found her 13-year-old daughter Megan hanging from her bedroom closet. Despite attempts to save her, Megan died the next day, just weeks away from her 14th birthday.

Messages and bulletins went to hundreds of kids saying, “Megan Meier is a slut.”

The tragedy drove Meier to found the Megan Meier Foundation to bring awareness and education about cyberbullying to students, parents and educators so that such behavior can be eliminated.