Facebook is Being Utilized for Criminal Behaviors
Facebook is a social networking site used by many people to find old friends, to share information, to publish pictures and to meet new people. Actually; Facebook with almost 500 million Facebook users is the most popular site used in the world. However not everybody is using it in the same way. There many people utilizing this media with another propose. Facebook is a platform that is being used by criminal to lure potential victims. They are using this social networking as a tool to commit murder, kidnapping and some case to robbery. Likewise, Facebook users are being victims of harassment by this criminal. Accordingly, is Facebook a safety social networking to share information and to meet new friends?
Nevertheless, ironically the police authorities also are using Facebook to resolve this cases. Equally as the victims as criminals are publishing information that police may to use for to help piece together what may have led to a possible murder.
Like it was published in:
The case in New Albani, UK where; “Police may be using a popular social networking website to help piece together what may have led to a possible murder-suicide.
Just hours before being fatally shot last week, 27-year-old Clayton Wrege, of New Albany, posted a message on Facebook that he intended to seek a restraining order against Hugh Bellis-Jones, who investigators believe later killed him.
Police are still not releasing many details of the investigation, but several messages posted by Wrege on Facebook offer clues as to a possible motive.
Wrege wrote on May 17 that someone slit his tire and keyed his Jeep while it was in his driveway. He then wrote on May 25 that someone keyed and slit all the tires to the car belonging to his roommate, who was Bellis-Jones’ ex-girlfriend. He said his house was also covered in paint.
Wrege, still not knowing who was the culprit, asked if anyone had information about the crime. By Friday, the day of the shooting, Wrege believed he knew who was responsible
Facebook-may-offer-clues-to-murder-suicide http://www.athensreview.com/breakingnews/x93699835/Facebook-may-offer-clues-to-murder-suicide
Facebook users are utilizing the site to commit murder. This is the case of Ana Maria Chavez, a 19-year-old student from Bogota-Colombia, murdered by two men she met through Facebook. She had accepted one of the two men who committed the crime, as her friend on the site. Slowly, he gained the victim's trust, and they started a friendly relationship though this social networking site.
Accepting a friend could be dangerous http://br7-facebookblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/accepting-friend-request-could-be.html
Likewise, is the case of Ashleigh Hall’s; a 17-year-old girl student from Sedgefield-England, who was murders by man she met on Facebook. When she met him, he said “that he was father of a boy that she was meeting". He then kidnapped, raped and murdered her.
On the other hand, are the cases for robbery, where criminals are using Facebook to get into home, as the case of Caroliny who is Montgomery resident, According to WSFA 12 News: “She put on her Facebook what: she is up to on the weekend-leaving home to go to the beach.” And then when she arrived to her house, thieves had entered in her house and they robbery everything.
Millions of peoples are posting personal information about themselves. Knowing that this may used against them,
Facebook is way fun. One out of every 14 people in the world now has a Facebook account, according to The New Yorker, which recently wrote a profile about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. (He's also the subject of one of the fall's most anticipated movies, "The Social Network”.
In addition, Some people are sharing too much over Facebook, your up-to-the-minute location, your naked photos, your mama's maiden name - can be harmful, even dangerous, people must understand that, there are people out there who want to use our information nefarious reasons.
In addition, Some people are sharing too much over Facebook, your up-to-the-minute location, your naked photos, your mama's maiden name - can be harmful, even dangerous, people must understand that, there are people out there who want to use our information nefarious reasons.
Accordingly, Facebook is not totally responsible about for these crimes, people must know how to use their information, and in the same way, people must to know where the most appropriate place to share their information is, likewise what kind of information is appropriate to share.
However, Facebook changes privacy settings for to protect their user. Facebook says “people like sharing, and the main worriers about privacy are the professional privacy advocates”. There will now be "a single control for your content, more powerful controls for your basic information and an easy control to turn off all applications," Zuckerberg said in a post on The Facebook Blog. He default privacy settings allowed users' information to be shared widely, to be seen by other Facebook users not necessarily in their immediate or self-selected circles of friends. That raised concerns that the company wasn't trustworthy”
In addition, there is The New Facebook’s Privacy Policy
Date of last revision: April 22, 2010.
This policy contains eight sections, and you can jump to each by selecting the links below:
1. Introduction
2. Information We Receive
3. Sharing information on Facebook
4. Information You Share With Third Parties
5. How We Use Your Information
6. How We Share Information
7. How You Can Change or Remove Information
8. How We Protect Information
9. Other Terms
Date of last revision: April 22, 2010.
This policy contains eight sections, and you can jump to each by selecting the links below:
1. Introduction
2. Information We Receive
3. Sharing information on Facebook
4. Information You Share With Third Parties
5. How We Use Your Information
6. How We Share Information
7. How You Can Change or Remove Information
8. How We Protect Information
9. Other Terms
In consequence, Facebook’s users have choice to decide what are they sharing, and in this way Facebook company could to show that it is not completely responsibility about what are people sharing in this social networking.
Although there were many cases of crimes committed against Facebook users. There are many people who are adding so-called friends, not realizing that this could be a potential criminal, in the same way; this user to continue publishing information that in many cases it is desirable to share with everybody.
Everyone should think better what is sharing on Facebook, what kind of information is putting on-line and how could be used by another user, because there are many people are using Facebook with another propose.
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