There has been a plethora of reports of murder, blackmailing, torture and even divorces all stemming from the activity on the social network, Facebook. Sad to say the least and I really wont reminisce over all the reports earlier. At the same time I won’t single Facebook as being the only social network that is the source of all such trouble, the question is are these platforms so real in our real lives?
We all would have an obvious answer, no. Rightly said but I know people personally who value as much they value anything in their daily lives, and by taking it real I mean that they take it very seriously. Facebook, Twitter, MySpace is more of a reputation and not just a means of connection with friends, like minded or whatever you do online. These folks wont joke and would readily bite you if you do through a joke at them. Same goes for the jesters, while these two categories remain pretty harmless and can be interesting every now and then, there are more sinister folks who spy, follow and allure you into a trap. The worst part, you have no idea what is running in their heads or what they want to do, there is an absence of emotional expression, eye contact or even voice. What you have are just textual impressions of what the person might be or thinking about. Rest is up to you to decide, trust them, associate stories and make judgments or simply ignore. I guess not all are so much in control of their emotions.
This brings me to an earlier report of a 33 year old man brutally raping and murdering a 17 year old girl. I have absolutely no clue as to how he got her in his trap and to mention the best I can guess, he must have taken total advantage of her innocence. Not stretching the terrible thing here, I am just curious as to what exactly can these social networks do to prevent murderers and criminals getting along with their plans? You can’t really police the 400 million plus people and profile them on their criminal backgrounds. Why? Well there is always the availability of fake profiles and anonymity. So how exactly can this be prevented? Should the act of having the Facebook Bureau of Investigation help in this regard? How exactly then? Or should we take the age old saying to these social networks too: Never Talk To Strangers?
Hello facebook family i need some help i have 2 daughters that have been on facebook i need to show them how easy it is for someone to get there information and what information they should not place for anyone to see if anyone can send me some videos, grafic videos so i can show them of information that has gotten someone raped and or killed .thank you and god bless.
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