http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/staffordshire/7845946.stm
"Richardson became enraged when Sarah changed her marital status on Facebook to single and decided to go and see her as she was not responding to his messages."
I read this grim article this morning on BBC news. The strange thing is that the killer did not verbally consult his wife. All he saw was a change in facebook marital status to "single", and he went and killed her, no questions asked. This reminds me of people who are often sensitive to others' ways of interacting on facebook. If they don't receive a response in a while, or if they see an ex-girlfriend/boyfriend in a picture with someone new, they jump to conclusions dangerous to their emotional wellbeing without talking it out with the other person. The way texting and the internet is changing interaction is interesting. The text written on your profile can be interpreted in ways you might not want. Do you guys think this terrible murder could have happened without facebook? what role does facebook play? Someone else could have been playing a joke and changed her status. She may have had computer complications that didn't allow her to answer his messages. So many things could have been an explaination. what do you guys think about this?
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Haha. This reminds me of all the MySpace drama back in the day when someone took someone off of their Top 8 and the victim would come back enraged.
No intentional schadenfreude here - but I've got a feeling I know why she broke up with this fellow. Perhaps she felt that doing it over facebook might've been safer. Just lookit that guy. He's freaking nuts.
The drama created around the "Facebook status" has become predictable...and that's just creepy.
Recently, a mutual friend of pretty much all my Facebook contacts became engaged. Oddly, before informing any of us directly, he updated his Facebook status. The news of his engagement spread like a computer virus. Perhaps he expected this to happen? But there's still something to be said about someone providing the first news of such an event over a small status update on a popular social network...
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