The FACEBOOK Thread

[Bboy]

I actually think this is awesome hey. People need to realize nothing they do online is truly "private".

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

Imagine if the cops did Mafia Wars : /

 

[Nell2ThaIzzay]

This is exactly why I only add people who I actually know in real life.

 

[AndThePickles]

I've been getting a LOT of friend requests from strangers lately. Stranger danger!

 

[Norman Osborn]

This is exactly why I only add people who I actually know in real life.

<extremely old guy question> why would you add someone you don't know?....what's the point? </extremely old guy question>

 

[Majic Walrus]

I've been getting a LOT of friend requests from strangers lately. Stranger danger!

Wanna be friends?

Spoiler

 

[Morg]

Boy Sues Mom Over Facebook

Boy Sues Mom Over Facebook – A 16-year old boy filed criminal charges against his mother for hacking into his Facebook account and making changes.

The boy, 16-year-old Lane New, has charged his mom with harassing him by policing his Facebook page too aggressively — and with spreading slander in her own public postings on the page.

The boy’s mother, Denise New, of Arkadelphia, Arkansas, says she’s amazed by the charges. She is aghast that (a) her son would sue her, and (b) that a local prosecutor would take the case.

“You’re within your legal rights to monitor your child and to have a conversation with your child on Facebook whether it’s his account or your account or whoever’s account,” Denise New told reporters. “It’s crazy to me that we’re even having this interview.”

New said that she’d been thinking for sometime that Lane’s Facebook account wasn’t reflecting well on him — and last month, she took it upon herself to start editing it so as to excise material she deemed offensive and/or embarrassing.

One day, she noticed that after Lane had updated his account on her computer, he’d failed to log out of it. So she made a few changes and then changed his password to prevent him from accessing the account again.

“The things he was posting in Facebook would make any decent parent’s eyes pop out and his jaw drop,” New said. “He had been warned before about things he had been posting.”

Among the offending entries, she explained, was an account of driving 95 mph to Hot Springs one night after getting in an argument with a girl he liked.

It should be said that Lane currently lives with his grandmother.

Denise New says that she began experiencing mental problems in the wake of her divorce about five years ago and felt she couldn’t provide her son the proper supervision.

In his handwritten complaint to the court, 16-year old Lane New described his mother’s behavior: “Denise first hacked my Facebook and changed my password. She also changed the password to my email so I could not change it. She posted things that involve slander and personal facts about my life.”

 

[Heretic]

In his defense, she did forget to plant some crops on Farmville.

 

[Prison Mike]

I hope the mom wins!

 

[Majic Walrus]

**** I hope the kid wins. He is the owner of the account and while she may have the parental obligation to determine all kinds of things she does not have the parental right to vandalize someone's property.

If he owned a car that was completely his (like the Facebook account) and someone put bumper stickers on it which he deemed offensive and/or damaged the car in some way... then obviously we'd expect him to take action. The only difference here is that she completely hijacked the account (stole it, if you will).

It should be stated that she forfeited her parental rights apparently.

 

[PemLam]

If his mother is still his legal guardian, than he should just **** and quit his whining. However, if his grandmother is his legal guardian, then as much as I hate to say it, he should win.

*ROTFL at Heretic's comment about Farmville.

 

[Mee]

I'm eager to see how this plays out.


Maybe I'll be able to sue my mom for that time she edited my crayon coloring off the wall.

 

[Figs]

**** I hope the kid wins. He is the owner of the account and while she may have the parental obligation to determine all kinds of things she does not have the parental right to vandalize someone's property.

If he owned a car that was completely his (like the Facebook account) and someone put bumper stickers on it which he deemed offensive and/or damaged the car in some way... then obviously we'd expect him to take action. The only difference here is that she completely hijacked the account (stole it, if you will).

It should be stated that she forfeited her parental rights apparently.

Wrong. Although we all may have hated it growing up, until we're 18 our parents basically own us as funny as that may sound.

Horrible comparison with the car by the way. It's a Facebook account, it's not a tangible property and technically we think our pages on there belong to us but they actually belong to Facebook. It's nowhere near the same level of damaging someone's car or other form of tangible property.

This is yet another example of how bad today's spoiled youth are getting, they go so far as to sue over something this trivial. I do admit what she did was wrong and just stupid and mean but he rightfully shouldn't be able to win this case. In fact, if our court system wasn't so corrupt, greedy, pathetic and still had any honor left from the old days, they would be laughing this case out.

 

[Bad Superman]

In his defense, she did forget to plant some crops on Farmville.

 

[Majic Walrus]

Wrong. Although we all may have hated it growing up, until we're 18 our parents basically own us as funny as that may sound.

Not true, especially in this case because the mother is not the teen's legal custodian.

Horrible comparison with the car by the way. It's a Facebook account, it's not a tangible property and technically we think our pages on there belong to us but they actually belong to Facebook. It's nowhere near the same level of damaging someone's car or other form of tangible property.

The property IS tangible. The same way an email account is tangible property or an .mp3 is tangible property or an idea is intellectual property or a website is property.

And while technically Facebook owns the service the content of the page is still intellectual property and still belongs to the creator. Not to mention the fact that posting things on someone else's Facebook page that is slanderous is illegal.

This is yet another example of how bad today's spoiled youth are getting, they go so far as to sue over something this trivial. I do admit what she did was wrong and just stupid and mean but he rightfully shouldn't be able to win this case. In fact, if our court system wasn't so corrupt, greedy, pathetic and still had any honor left from the old days, they would be laughing this case out.

I would agree that it's trivial, that the kid is a totally spoiled brat, and that he should probably just let the damn thing go. However, I don't think that this is an instance of our court system being corrupt or greedy but rather following the letter of the law. There are plenty of "Trivial" things that the law is still obligated to uphold.

Someone steals a stick of chewing gum from Wal-Mart? Petty right. Petty theft is still a crime though. Someone shouts profanity in a public place? Trivial right? Disorderly conduct is a crime though. And someone hijacks your Facebook account and posts as you it's still a crime.

 

[Figs]

I would agree that it's trivial, that the kid is a totally spoiled brat, and that he should probably just let the damn thing go. However, I don't think that this is an instance of our court system being corrupt or greedy but rather following the letter of the law. There are plenty of "Trivial" things that the law is still obligated to uphold.

Someone steals a stick of chewing gum from Wal-Mart? Petty right. Petty theft is still a crime though. Someone shouts profanity in a public place? Trivial right? Disorderly conduct is a crime though. And someone hijacks your Facebook account and posts as you it's still a crime.

Either way I will never be able to look at underage kids(brats)who will take it this far with any respect. It's just a bit ridiculous taking someone to court over it.

I do understand what you mean by intellectual property but did the kid have anything actually copyrighted, or now days do you not need to anymore for that kind of stuff? If there was personal writings or drawings/art he would need to get it copyrighted right?

 

[union_jak]

What kind of name is Lane New? One's a noun and the other is an adjective, it's not a name

 

[the_ultimate_evil]

If there was personal writings or drawings/art he would need to get it copyrighted right?

once you have created it, it is copyright to you

every photo i take once i hit the shutter release it is mine.

 

[Ugfugly]

What this kid needs is a good ass whuppin and then his Internet connection cut off. After the judge sends him to jail for a night

 

[Majic Walrus]

Either way I will never be able to look at underage kids(brats)who will take it this far with any respect. It's just a bit ridiculous taking someone to court over it.

I do understand what you mean by intellectual property but did the kid have anything actually copyrighted, or now days do you not need to anymore for that kind of stuff? If there was personal writings or drawings/art he would need to get it copyrighted right?

Most things that are published online automatically become "copyrighted" in that they are not available for reproduction without consent from the creator unless otherwise stated. HOWEVER, the more serious issue is that if she was posting on his Facebook page without being him then she was pretending to be a 16 year old boy on the internet and even if she wasn't doing anything horribly or particularly heinous that's still not very cool.

 

[The Lumberjack]

I thought this said "Boy sues mom over face". That seemed more plausible.

 

[Figs]

once you have created it, it is copyright to you

every photo i take once i hit the shutter release it is mine.

Most things that are published online automatically become "copyrighted" in that they are not available for reproduction without consent from the creator unless otherwise stated. HOWEVER, the more serious issue is that if she was posting on his Facebook page without being him then she was pretending to be a 16 year old boy on the internet and even if she wasn't doing anything horribly or particularly heinous that's still not very cool.

I'm not so sure about that. If you can't prove it in a court of law that you took or drew that picture for example, then it can easily be taken from someone else as their own. You at the very least need to put your own made up watermark thing on it. My gf does that with all her art that she posts on that Deviantart website, so do a few friends of mine who actually have their own comic going on.

I can't tell you guys how many times i've seen people whine and cry that someone took their art as their own. If they had at least a watermark logo(I can't remember the proper name, not sure if watermark is correct)on their pics/drawings, no one can steal it really.

I do agree Walrus, that what she did of course was still messed up.

 

[Mike_D202]

In his defense, she did forget to plant some crops on Farmville.

http://www.hiyoooo.com/

 

[AndThePickles]

Damn, if this kid wins, I'll be friggin pissed that I didn't sue my mom for all the snooping she did in my business.

 

[Raiden]

So the kid referred to his mom in his handwritten note to the court as "Denise"? I don't think what that mom did was right; she could've handled it alot better. But that kid is way out of line with that lawsuit targeting his mom, over a trival thing like Facebook hacking? I hope he gets grounded by his grandmother.