November 23rd, 2007
Meredith suspect arrested after Facebook trace:
One of the suspects in the murder of British student Meredith Kercher was nabbed when he logged into his Facebook.
Rudy Guede, a 20-year-old student with joint Italian and Ivory Coast nationality, was stopped by German police after he tried to board a train between Mainz, in the south of […]
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November 6th, 2007
Students flaunt election sign destruction on networking website Facebook:
A group calling itself the New Saskatchewan Sign Kicking Party appeared on Facebook.
It was described as a party for the youth of Saskatchewan who are upset that they can’t run for office or vote “and for any kids that just enjoy kicking political party signs.”
The site […]
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November 3rd, 2007
Facebook site ripped:
A Facebook group was started for people who enjoy to throw things at prostitutes in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
The site on Facebook, operated by a group called “For those people who have thrown something at those lovely girls on Higgins,” had members listing off items they had thrown at “cheap hookers” working along a […]
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October 31st, 2007
Tesco man suspended over web message:
A man who works as a support line technician for an ISP in the UK is in hot water after leaving a comment and risque photo on a female customer’s Facebook.
A Tesco employee has been suspended after using a customer’s personal details to track her down on the Facebook website […]
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October 17th, 2007
Facebook settles New York child safety probe:
Not too long ago I posted about New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo setting his sights on Facebook because of pervs approaching his office’s fake underage Facebook profile.
Well, Facebook has caved in to him…
The settlement involves no financial penalties.
Under the terms of the settlement, Facebook has agreed to begin […]
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October 17th, 2007
TechCrunch has a great write up on a Facebook clone called Hatebook.
Hatebook looks and functions much like Facebook, except with an evil twist for everything. The color scheme is hellish red, profiles include a section called “Why I’m Better Than You!”, and members can create “Hate Albums” that consist of photos and descriptions of things […]
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October 15th, 2007
Alberta teen apologizes for disgraceful Facebook group:
A kid in Alberta is in some hot water for making a Facebook group in honor of an accused cop killer.
Eighteen-year-old Matt Galpin says he was drunk when he created the group “Long Live Emrah Bulatci’ on the social networking site Facebook with a friend.
Was I the only 18-year-old […]
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October 8th, 2007
With MySpace, Facebook, gangland moving online:
Another article about gangs using MySpace and Facebook to not only recruit members but to boast about their crimes online.
A teen purporting to be a 17-year-old Nashua boy created a group on MySpace using the name of a local gang in the French Hill area of the city, “LDP,” […]
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October 8th, 2007
Facebook bullies suspended:
Some students at a Winnipeg school are having second thoughts about making a Facebook group to bully another student.. Others, not so much.
According to the article the Facebook group contained expletives and homophobic slurs directed at one particular student. It’s not know if the victim was actually gay or not but that doesn’t […]
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October 4th, 2007
Man jailed over Facebook message:
Some poor shlub from the UK had the UK version of a restraining order put against him by his estranged wife.
Dylan Osborn, 37, had been ordered by magistrates not to contact his wife Claire Tarbox, after he harassed her with phonecalls and text messages.
Ok so I’m not feeling too sorry […]
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October 3rd, 2007
New Jersey attorney general subpoenas Facebook over sex offender data:
New Jersey attorney Anne Milgram has subpoenaed Facebook and 11 other social sites requesting if they have sex offenders as their users. Facebook claims they removed a list of registered New Jersey sex offenders from their site but AG Milgram says that’s not enough. The AG […]
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September 30th, 2007
Soham killer returned to prison:
The other day I posted about Ian Huntley. He’s a convicted British child killer who has a profile on Facebook that a lot of UK facebook users are upset with. He is serving a life sentence in prison since the UK does not have the death penalty.
Well it seems that Huntley […]
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September 26th, 2007
NY’s Cuomo subpoenas Facebook after company fails to respond:
First it was Connecticut’s Richard Blumenthal. Then it was North Carolina’s Roy Cooper. Now add New York’s Andrew Cuomo to the list of state attorneys general who just don’t get it. (Is there any politician from New York that’s not named Cuomo?) Anyway, Mr. Cuomo has subpoenaed […]
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September 24th, 2007
Outrage as Ian Huntley joins Facebook:
Ian Huntley is a twisted little bastard. He was convicted in 2003 for murdering Cambridgeshire schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman. That’s in England by the way. As is the case with incarcerated famous criminals it seems that Huntley has a female admirer much like the Menendez Brothers here in […]
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September 21st, 2007
OU Student Finds Trouble On Facebook:
Some people still do not get it that nothing is private on the internet. A female student ay Oklahoma University posted a picture of herself posing with a pellet gun while driving on her Facebook. Of course by looking at the picture you can’t tell it’s just a pellet gun. […]
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