Sunday, September 23, 2012

Man Updates Facebook Page While Holding Hostage

FYI: according to the Reuters story
which appeared in siliconvalley.com,
Facebook took down the perp's page
at the request of law enforcement.
Crimes of passion, crimes for material gain, or crimes of lust for power, have taken a new twist with developments in social media.

The subject of the post, taken word-for-word from siliconvalley.com, tells the story. The episode took place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on Friday. It's wild to envision someone in the midst of a criminal act reaching out to his or her Facebook "friends" list and providing a psychological window into their activity and thinking. What kind of community dialogue would be generated? What about "likes"? Yikes!

One missing element was a perpetrator-generated YouTube video of the incident, but I may be premature in that assertion.

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