Facebook Aids In Burglaries

Discussion in 'The Media' started by Motion, Sep 15, 2010.

  1. Motion

    Motion Senior Member

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  2. lynzxx

    lynzxx Senior Member

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    yeah i heard about this a while ago! makes sense not to announce it to the world!!!!....
     
  3. odon

    odon Slightly Popular

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    What next? Facebook workers are forced to work in sweatshop conditions?
    I should watch what I say on Facebook, though.
     
  4. starbuck

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    facebook will bring our society down! it will be the first internet revolution! ha!
     
  5. Sam_Stoned

    Sam_Stoned Senior Member

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    I'm not gonna read the article... but what the fuck is up with the "facebook denies" part of the caption?

    Is the company really so hard-on to maintain total innocence in anything related to abuse of their site that they actually have the gull to say "We deny that someone use a status update to deduct when someone wouldn't be home so they can rob them?"

    How can you even deny something like that? It's not up to you how it happened. Fucking shit
     
  6. Motion

    Motion Senior Member

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    I guess the best thing Facebook could do is at least provide warnings to their members about being careful with the information that they post.
     
  7. wa bluska wica

    wa bluska wica Pedestrian

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    i knew facebook had to be good for something . . .
     
  8. odon

    odon Slightly Popular

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    It does. "Controlling how you share". Nobody seems to read it, though.
    It can't prevent people talking about what they are going to be up to, though.
    That's the whole point.
    You just have to be careful who you befriend.
    If people are STILL leaving their accounts wide open then they deserve to be robbed. :D
     
  9. Heat

    Heat Smile, it's contagious! :) Lifetime Supporter

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    If people would stop and think about how much information they put out, the problem would not exist.

    The invasion of privacy and violations are their own doing. Limit information.
     
  10. 6-eyed shaman

    6-eyed shaman Sock-eye salmon

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    Serves you right if you keep postin' stupid shit about yourself on facebook every 30 minutes.

    Then you have your asshole friends tagging you in pictures doing some illegal shit, so your boss can see them the next morning when you called in sick for work.

    Facebook sucks.
     
  11. odon

    odon Slightly Popular

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    Some people suck. :mad: Some people blow. :rolleyes: Facebook rocks. :)
     
  12. The Imaginary Being

    The Imaginary Being PAIN IN ASS Lifetime Supporter

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    Facebook hates fags.
     
  13. odon

    odon Slightly Popular

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    That's a new one. :eek:
     
  14. stinkfoot

    stinkfoot truth

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    Yep--

    Kinda odd for FB to "deny" it when common sense suggests that if you broadcast to the world that your possessions are going to remain unprotected for a period of time someone is going to use that info to try and help themselves to it... but I suppose they are being "proactive" in terms of potential liability when the folks who put that information out there end up having it used against them.

    Some people have to learn that the hard way
     
  15. Irminsul

    Irminsul Valkyrie

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    I don't have a Facebook and my unimmediate family doesn't even know my address.
     
  16. AT98BooBoo

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    Facebook update: I'm goin on vacation on Monday. Bringing home my fully trained Pitbull on Sunday.
     
  17. djomalley

    djomalley Fanch King

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    Taken from the article:
    Facebook has denied any link to the burglaries, and said it has contacted local police and confirmed that only one of the burglars was a Facebook "friend" of his victim.

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    Why does it matter if only one of them were friends on facebook... all that it would take would be one to see the status right? Still, the victim is responsible for what they post.
     
  18. daisymae

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    Why would Facebook be to blame anyway? They didn't tell the idiots to brag nonstop about everything they do...

    I have friends who put their addresses and phone numbers out for the world to see. And another who likes to post pictures of his new entertainment equipment...it's ridiculous.
     
  19. Dude111

    Dude111 An Awesome Dude HipForums Supporter

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    INDEED IT DOES!! (Very much so)
     
  20. KhaosKage

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    well when you think about it, thats actually pretty smart. not sayin id be dumb enough to do it though
     

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