No doubt, the social media is one of the best things that happened
to socialization. Generally speaking, its essence is to connect
people. But like most good things; there is a twisted end.
We get tagged like face book, linked-in like twitter, we give hi5’s
like its our ultimate Pinterest , and are ever good 2go like
tumblr…..yeah whatever.
As awesome as it sounds , there are people who if given a second
chance would never join any social media! Today, we focus on
facebook.
When you add friends on facebook, be sure to look at their profile
especially their interest. I say this because one 15year old Alyssa
Bustamante who listed “ cutting and killing people ” as one of her
interest on her profile stabbed a 9year old Elizabeh Olten multiple
times before slitting her throat, and hid her body in a shallow
grave she had dug before the planned crime. She said the reason
why she did this was because “she wanted to know how it felt”.
In 2009, a teenager Ashleigh hall was killed after meeting a
convicted sex offender who had been posing as a 16 year old boy
on Facebook.
Now this next case is what I call extreme. Sarah , who was
separated from her husband changed her relationship status from
married to Single, obviously because she was kind of single as she
didn’t stay with Edward Richardson her husband. Call it jealousy
if you like, the dude crept into her home and waited till she came
back and killed her. WTF? This guy’s reasoning is way out of
normal.
Holly Grogan, 15, was tortured and tormented by bullies at school.
The frustration was too much for her to bear that she changed
school yet, the torment continued there. She received numerous
messages on her facebook and the bullies did not stop there, they
even posted lots of abusive, nasty messages on her facebook wall.
That was it! She had had enough! On Wednesday 16 th 2009, she
went to a dual carriage way and jumped from a road bridge that
was near her home. She was hit by passing traffic after the fall
and died.
Alas, one of the recent “death by facebook” is the case of 15year
old Nichole cable who was kidnapped and later found dead. Kyle
Dube, 20, who set a fake facebook account with the name “Bryan
Butterfield used it to lure her into going out of her house while he
waited in the woods wearing a mask. When she came
by, Hoping to get some marijuana, he seized and duck-taped her
and dumped her at the back of his father’s pick-up truck which
as according to the affidavit which did not give details of the
actual cause of her death.
She was missing on may 13 and her body was later found on the
night of may 20.
What gives this sad story a funny twist is that Dube, according to
reports told his brother that he intended to kidnap Nichole and
hide her. That he would later find her and be the hero. High risk.
We are popular with the 2go rape which made national news in
Nigeria etc. The social media that brings with it goodness could
bring no mercy.
My advice? No one can predict the future, but we an influence
it…..be careful!

www.umehoma.com/2013/06/death-by-facebook.html?m=1

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