{"id":1287,"date":"2009-01-28T09:40:24","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T14:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=1287"},"modified":"2009-01-28T09:40:24","modified_gmt":"2009-01-28T14:40:24","slug":"facebook-kills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2009\/01\/28\/facebook-kills","title":{"rendered":"Facebook kills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/byte\/3165986897\/\" title=\"no longer listed as single... Facebook notifications by byte, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1093\/3165986897_12e8478f96_m.jpg?resize=170%2C240\" width=\"170\" height=\"240\" alt=\"no longer listed as single... Facebook notifications\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a> People tend to be excited when a Facebook status changes. In fact, Facebook gives it a lot of prominence by embedding it on the start page of your friends.<\/p>\n<p>This Facebook status message thing though, can cause a lot of misunderstandings. If you&#8217;re not listed as single, it doesn&#8217;t mean you&#8217;re in a relationship (it could just mean that you&#8217;ve stopped looking, decided to become a priest, celebrate celibacy, et al). Whatever.<\/p>\n<p>For some, it can even cause death. Via The BBC, in <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/england\/staffordshire\/7845946.stm\">Wife murdered for Facebook status<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nA man murdered his estranged wife after becoming &#8220;enraged&#8221; when she changed her marital status on Facebook to &#8220;single&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<br \/>\nFiona Cortese, of the Crown Prosecution Service, said: &#8220;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.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read about breakup&#8217;s on Facebook. I&#8217;ve read about people&#8217;s happiness on Facebook. But this is a first, I&#8217;ve read of a murder thanks to Facebook. Waste of a twenty six year old life. Bad social networking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People tend to be excited when a Facebook status changes. In fact, Facebook gives it a lot of prominence by embedding it on the start page of your friends. This Facebook status message thing though, can cause a lot of misunderstandings. If you&#8217;re not listed as single, it doesn&#8217;t mean you&#8217;re in a relationship (it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[297,690,376,691],"class_list":["post-1287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-facebook","tag-murder","tag-social-networking","tag-status"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-kL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1288,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions\/1288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}