3 Colombian teens on Facebook hit list killed in past 10 days

August 24th, 2010

This is one of the reasons I call social sites dangerous. Am I blaming Facebook for this, not really. It is kind of the same as guns don’t kill people, people kill people scenario. However, it clearly points out how technology can and is being used to perpetrate all kinds of evils up to and including murder. This is why I take such umbrage on Facebook features like “Places”, which essentially gives predators a laser target to your location. Did Facebook kill these teens, no! Will giving out your location on Facebook get you killed? Probably not, but why take the risk? And there might be worse things than being killed!

Here is the full article: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/08/24/colombia.facebook.killings/index.html?hpt=T2

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