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. According to Wauters, Robin. “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; to murder, to kidnap and to robbery are some crimes that are using criminals by Facebook. Facebook is a platform that is being used by criminals 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. Is Facebook a safety social networking to share information and to meet new friends? For these reason, Facebook users should think twice about what they are putting on this social networking site in order to stay safe and not become a victim of these criminals.
Facebook users are utilizing the site to commit murder. Murder as 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 through this social networking site.
Likewise, is the case of Ashleigh Hall; a 17-year-old female student from Sedgefield-England, who was murder 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 homes of the Facebook users who put on line that they will be away from home for extended times. According to Mckinney, Melissa publication:
There is the case of Caroliny, who is Montgomery resident in UK, Caroliny put on her Facebook what; (she is up to on the weekend-leaving home to go to the beach). And then when she returned home, thieves had entered her home and they had stole everything.
Ironically the police also are using Facebook to resolve these cases of murder, robbery and kidnappings. Like the victims, criminals are publishing information or comments that to help to police to resolve these crimes. According to the New Albany review;
There is 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.
Equally to the victims, criminals posted messages that the police may to use for to catch these killers. In Wrege’s case, several messages he posted on Facebook offer clues as to a possible motive, these clues are using for the police to resolve this murder-suicide.
Millions of people are posting personal information about themselves, knowing that this may used against them. IH
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, and people must understand that, there are people out there who want to use our information for nefarious reasons.
Accordingly, Facebook is not totally responsible for these crimes; people should know how to protect their information. In the same way, they must to know where the most appropriate place to share their information is, likewise what kind of information is appropriate to share.
However, Facebook has changed privacy settings to protect their users sections as: sharing information on Facebook, how we use you information, and how protect you information are some of new links that Facebook users can to control in their accounts. According to Kaste, Martin:
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. The 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 consequence, Facebook’s users can decide what they are sharing, and in this way Facebook could show that it is not completely responsible for 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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