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Facebook 'Unfriending' Leads To Double Homicide
« on: February 13, 2012, 05:22:55 PM »
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/12/facebook-unfriending-leads-to-double-homicide/

Horrific: After Billie Jean Hayworth defriended a 30-year-old woman, Jenelle Potter, on Facebook, Potter’s father went to Hayworth’s house and murdered her and her fiance, sparing their baby, who was found unharmed in his mother’s arms. Hayworth, 23, and Billy Payne, 36, were both shot, and Payne’s throat was slashed.

    “It’s just a senseless thing,” said Johnson County Sheriff Mike Reece. “[Jennelle Potter had] been blocked on Facebook by Billie Jean.”

    via Facebook ‘Defriending’ Led to Double Murder, Say Police – ABC News.

One of the investigators says that there had “been bad blood” between the two families for some time, with confrontations in real life, including an altercation at a grocery store, but what triggered the murders was the act of severing ties on Facebook.

I cannot fathom homicidal rage over a Facebook blocking, but it’s not the first time that a Facebook defriending has inspired criminal retaliation. Last year, an Illinois woman set fire to a couple’s house after being defriended.

Facebook crystallizes the dynamics of our friendships and social interactions — bringing them a clarity that can be measured by clicks, visits, and comments. Having our social interactions brought into that level of focus means that a relationship that might have once ebbed over time naturally through avoidance and ignored phone calls can instead be cut off in a dramatic and confrontational way. Perhaps laying bare the end of a relationship in such a deliberate way means an intensified emotional reaction for those involved, or a sense of finality that one wouldn’t usually get. (When I blocked an ex-boyfriend on Facebook years ago, he was angrier about that than at any other point in our breaking up.)

For it to escalate to this level of retaliation, though, is horribly tragic. I suppose the lesson here, if there is one, is not to defriend/block anyone on Facebook who strikes you as potentially homicidal. (Or better yet, don’t friend them in the first place.)
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Re: Facebook 'Unfriending' Leads To Double Homicide
« Reply #1 on: February 13, 2012, 05:26:45 PM »
I`m deleting my FB account right now...........fucking crazy world!!

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Re: Facebook 'Unfriending' Leads To Double Homicide
« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2012, 05:28:11 PM »
I`m deleting my FB account right now...........fucking crazy world!!

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Re: Facebook 'Unfriending' Leads To Double Homicide
« Reply #3 on: February 13, 2012, 05:28:59 PM »
I deactivated mine yesterday.  I want to take a break from it for a couple of months. 

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Re: Facebook 'Unfriending' Leads To Double Homicide
« Reply #4 on: February 13, 2012, 05:30:03 PM »
Do not delete any Getbiggers or else.............. :-\ :-\
Yes it's full of physcos here..HAHA   ;D

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Re: Facebook 'Unfriending' Leads To Double Homicide
« Reply #5 on: February 13, 2012, 05:31:33 PM »
Next thing you know, people with get shot just for refusing to play "Farmville"   >:(
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Re: Facebook 'Unfriending' Leads To Double Homicide
« Reply #6 on: February 13, 2012, 05:32:47 PM »
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Re: Facebook 'Unfriending' Leads To Double Homicide
« Reply #7 on: February 13, 2012, 05:33:10 PM »
Next thing you know, people with get shot just for refusing to play "Farmville"   >:(


Farmville is pretty serious business.
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Re: Facebook 'Unfriending' Leads To Double Homicide
« Reply #8 on: February 13, 2012, 05:33:22 PM »
i deleted my account a month ago and I'm not regretting it at all. Well maby a little, but that's the point, it's ridiculous. Just attention whoring and acting up as you wouldn't in real life.

if anyone else wants to delete that attention whore spy program with one click, here it is;

https://ssl.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account

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Re: Facebook 'Unfriending' Leads To Double Homicide
« Reply #9 on: February 13, 2012, 05:34:40 PM »
Next thing you know, people with get shot just for refusing to play "Farmville"   >:(

I got requests constantly for that shit.  It's so incredibly annoying.  I even blocked one person for constantly sending me requests for that shit even though I told him to stop.  And the poking...there needs to be a bitch slap option.   ;D  As in fuck off

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Re: Facebook 'Unfriending' Leads To Double Homicide
« Reply #10 on: February 13, 2012, 05:34:47 PM »
I LIke this.


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Re: Facebook 'Unfriending' Leads To Double Homicide
« Reply #12 on: February 13, 2012, 05:38:45 PM »
They always invite me to play Castleville......whateve r the fuck that is.
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Re: Facebook 'Unfriending' Leads To Double Homicide
« Reply #13 on: February 13, 2012, 05:38:48 PM »
I thought this was going to be about Jerryme and Pumpster


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Re: Facebook 'Unfriending' Leads To Double Homicide
« Reply #15 on: February 13, 2012, 05:40:11 PM »
When I posted up my pet cat album, I found that 99% of the pokes ceased.   ;D  It's awesome for stopping pokes.  

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Re: Facebook 'Unfriending' Leads To Double Homicide
« Reply #16 on: February 13, 2012, 05:40:26 PM »
I got requests constantly for that shit.  It's so incredibly annoying.  I even blocked one person for constantly sending me requests for that shit even though I told him to stop.  And the poking...there needs to be a bitch slap option.   ;D  As in fuck off

Not only the requests, but the statuses...   Joe Schmoe just bought a house in Farmville!!   Like I'm going to tell the wife, "Honey, turn off the stove and sit down...you won't believe this, but remember Uncle Joe?  Well he just bought a house in Farmville!"   ::)
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Re: Facebook 'Unfriending' Leads To Double Homicide
« Reply #17 on: February 13, 2012, 05:42:09 PM »
Not only the requests, but the statuses...   Joe Schmoe just bought a house in Farmville!!   Like I'm going to tell the wife, "Honey, turn off the stove and sit down...you won't believe this, but remember Uncle Joe?  Well he just bought a house in Farmville!"   ::)
I never got any of those kind of status's, thank god.  Just the constant requests were bad enough

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Re: Facebook 'Unfriending' Leads To Double Homicide
« Reply #18 on: February 13, 2012, 06:05:50 PM »
shooting is for pussies, real men stab

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Re: Facebook 'Unfriending' Leads To Double Homicide
« Reply #19 on: February 13, 2012, 06:06:13 PM »
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Re: Facebook 'Unfriending' Leads To Double Homicide
« Reply #20 on: February 13, 2012, 06:07:44 PM »
shooting is for pussies, real men stab

"Payne’s throat was slashed"

He was clearly in 2 minds

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Re: Facebook 'Unfriending' Leads To Double Homicide
« Reply #21 on: February 13, 2012, 08:10:07 PM »
Retards  ::)
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Re: Facebook 'Unfriending' Leads To Double Homicide
« Reply #22 on: February 13, 2012, 08:20:55 PM »
Id remove facebook, but then Id have to start texting which is far worst.

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Re: Facebook 'Unfriending' Leads To Double Homicide
« Reply #23 on: February 13, 2012, 08:25:01 PM »
Next thing you know, people with get shot just for refusing to play "Farmville"   >:(



Sounds funny now but may be a future news article in this crazy over connected world.

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Re: Facebook 'Unfriending' Leads To Double Homicide
« Reply #24 on: February 14, 2012, 01:44:54 PM »
Facebook.......never had it........never will......nothing but problems.
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