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I think you're on the right track. I really don't believe social networking sites are as great as people believe they are. I'm hoping its just a fad that will continue to die out.

Yeah, I honestly have mixed feelings (and a Twitter account, even though I abstain from MySpace and FB). I think that probably every kind of connection / communication technology is open to this kind of "emotional abuse" ...

I don't think that social networking will necessarily die, but I think it needs to develop and settle into some kind of form that protects people -- not just from predators, but also from drama. That may just mean that ultimately it settles down into something people use much less (without any new rules or structure or process) -- MySpace and Facebook automatically become a lot less dramatic if you're not on them five times a day. Twitter seems to me much less prone to putting people in a bad emotional place, also.
 
Oh god! you haven't even seen any evidence or met the people and already you're condemning him to death. It's not like I'm on that guy's side; but seriously?

I guess I'll never understand conservatives. (I also thought you were a Christian, maybe due to some previous post, but that might also just be me stereotyping)

Why do we want murderers walking around our streets, or taking our tax money rotting in jail?
 
If they murdered someone then yes.

And if they didn't? What then? We just put them into prisons and waste our tax dollars? Or worse! We put them into institutions of reform and rehab! Those are even more expensive.

You know... while we're at it we should kill off the elderly and those living on welfare, they're just sucking tax dollars.
 
And if they didn't? What then? We just put them into prisons and waste our tax dollars? Or worse! We put them into institutions of reform and rehab! Those are even more expensive.

You know... while we're at it we should kill off the elderly and those living on welfare, they're just sucking tax dollars.

Rehab and reform facilities are only expensive because the government runs them. Let churches and non-profit organizations run them and we are good to go.

We don't need to kill elderly(or anyone) for living off welfare...just get the lazy democrats and illegal aliens off the welfare system.
 
Facebook was just the trigger in this case. Anyone who can't see that this person was unhinged and was likely to snap over anything (that b1tch ordered ranch dressing, off with her head!!), is missing the forest through the trees.
 
Facebook was just the trigger in this case.

I don't contest that... but FaceBook and MySpace have been triggers for multiple high profile crimes like this recently. My point isn't that they cause them -- it's just that they are triggers, and triggers that we don't understand well, because human behavior in the context of internet social networking is just poorly understood as it is so new.
 
Oh god! you haven't even seen any evidence or met the people and already you're condemning him to death. It's not like I'm on that guy's side; but seriously?

I guess I'll never understand conservatives. (I also thought you were a Christian, maybe due to some previous post, but that might also just be me stereotyping)

It's not a "Conservative" thing. I am by no means a conservative and personally I am in favor of capital punishment. Not to the extent that it is used today. But people who molest kids and admit to killing someone because of something they did on a social networking site... The world is to crowded as it is. We don't have space for those types of people.

A lot of people argue that it is wrong because at times people who are innocent have been killed. For me if I was wrongly convicted of a crime. I would much rather die then spend the rest of my life in prison. Plus with the advance in forensic science these chances are less and less.

Personally anyone who would kill their ex because of a statues change on facebook can not truly get what they deserve.
 
These kind of crimes happened long before Facebook, but I think these social networking sites still bring out a lot of bad things, even in otherwise good people.

I don't really agree. This guy is obviously unstable, and would have snapped at something else, like hearing that his ex went out on a date or something. It's not about the site.
 
Oh god! you haven't even seen any evidence or met the people and already you're condemning him to death. It's not like I'm on that guy's side; but seriously?

I guess I'll never understand conservatives. (I also thought you were a Christian, maybe due to some previous post, but that might also just be me stereotyping)

Its not just christian its for anyone who believes the bible "they stone people in that book of yours"-The Mist
See this is why people should vote yes on Prop8
 
This is why people should never be in relationships!

I SOOOOOOOOOOOO SOOOOOOO AGREEEEEEEE, relationships really dont work, just take a look at the poll on divorce its more than 50 % leanin to divorce its sick.

On top of it my 2year Rel. GF dump me, and Im still pissed but calmed (seriusly dont look at my older post on firearms colection)
 
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