Unlike an earlier case involving a Facebook entry while her child was dying. this note is a cry for help.
What do people ‘friends’ column in Facebook stands for?
It is meant for Friends; not merely for flirting unidentified.
Very concept of social networking is lost by incidents like these.
People should be more Humane.
If you are a friend you would have rushed to her help,at least called her.
While at it, what about her Family?-mute spectators?
Story:
On Christmas, 42-year-old British charity worker Simone Back posted a Facebook message reading, “‘Took all my pills be dead soon so bye bye every one.” 148 comments—many of them mocking her—followed. The next day she was found dead.
LOS ANGELES (CBS/AP)Stephen Garcia clearly didn’t want to live without his ex-girlfriend, Katie Tagle, or share custody of their infant son, so in an apparent murder-suicide, the angry California father killed his child, then himself. Hours later he was still telling the world just how he felt, in a suicide note on Facebook, possibly posted by a friend.
In the days before his death, Garcia posted seemingly desperate messages to his ex-girlfriend, along with pictures of him and Wyatt, and video clips of the baby at a younger age. On his MySpace page, he set his mood to “scared,” and wrote the words, “one more day.”
The baby’s mother, Katie Tagle, filed a request last December for a restraining order in San Bernardino County Court, but it was denied on Jan. 12 because Garcia was not considered a “threat to petitioner or the minor child.”
According to the Hi-Desert Star, Tagle sought restraining orders against Garcia several times, amid claims he sent her threatening messages, but was denied by at least two judges. A restraining order was granted eventually, says the paper, but another judge did not uphold it.
You land your self in unwanted situations by socializing and being yummy on the internet..
Being expressive ,gregarious and extrovert is different from being brash and reckless.
I feel parents and value systems and ‘freedom’ is responsible.
Old fashioned parental control, though may sound archaic , may save
children.
Life and Safety precedes Freedom of Expression( do not misread;this applies to this case)
Story:
So, Jessi had haters. A few days ago, she posted this YouTube video calling them out, issuing such threats as “If you can’t stop hating, you know what? I’ll pop a glock in your mouth and make a brain slushy.” Ha ha. Unfortunately for everyone involved, someone posted it to the Internet‘s scariest hive mind: 4Chan.org‘s notorious /b/ message board, and Tumblr.
The Internet started picking on Jessi Slaughter relentlessly. But it was more than just mocking: People started circulating Jessi’s real name, phone number, address and links to all her social networking accounts. Someone prank calledher. According to Encyclopedia Dramatica, pranksters spammed her Facebook and MySpace accounts, had pizzas delivered to her house and were considering sending call girls off Craigslist to the address. (Encyclopedia Dramatica currently has a three part section on “How to troll” Jessi: 1) “There are pics of her holding her boobs” 2) “Tell her to kill herself” 3) “Tell her dad that we are going to beat her up.”) Slaughter’s information and videos also shot through tumblr, aided by the blogging platform’s reblogging system.
Eventually, Jessi’s dad filmed himself yelling at the camera. Boing Boingpicked up the video and a meme was born. Actually, the video’s so good it spawned at least three different memes: “You dun Goofed,” “Consequences will never be the same” and “Cyberpolice.”
1. What are your kids doing on the Internet? Normally, we find fears about kids on the Internet the product of technophobic hysteria. But this case is a very good argument for why parents should at least be vaguely aware of what their kids are up to on the Internet. Is your 11 year-old girl embroiled in an underage sex scandal with the lead singer of a popular emo band? Is she threatening to shoot people on YouTube videos? Maybe now is the time to invest in good parental control software before she becomes a meme.
2. Tumblr is becoming a home for trolls. Tumblr was originally the good-natured domain of hip New York creatives. It was, on balance, a creative force on the Internet. But the role it played in trolling Jessi Slaughter shows that Tumblr is developing a nasty side as well. Tumblr founder David Karp better get on this before Tumblr becomes 4chan with a slick minimalist interface.
3. Don’t pick on 11 year-old girls. Seriously. No matter how dumb they seem—no matter how much they might seem to deserve it—they are, at the end of the day, 11 year-old girls. You wouldn’t make an 11 year-old girl cry in real life; why do it on the Internet?
Apart from the ethics of divulging confidential information, Myspace has the cheek to say ‘data can not identify a person’
If so, how are they are marketing advertising space?
Is it that advertisers go in without knowing which profiles they are addressing to?
If so, it is the most stupid thing to advertise with out data.
Note that Myspace has not denied divulging information .
Story.
MySpace has been sharing with its advertisers data that can be used to identify user profile pages, but the company doesn’t consider that to be a problem.The company said it did not consider the data to be information that could identify a person, partly because MySpace doesn’t require members to use their real names. The social networking site acknowledged transmitting information to advertisers that included a user ID and the last page viewed before a user clicked on an ad.
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