The FACEBOOK Thread

[8Diagrams(WU)]

Isnt that entrapment? Its a fake account with a hot chick to trick the kid into accepting and revealing his info. I could be wrong though.

 

[John Locke]

Isnt that entrapment? Its a fake account with a hot chick to trick the kid into accepting and revealing his info. I could be wrong though.

No, entrapment is if the cop told the kid to put the photos on Facebook. This is more like an undercover thing.

 

[Hotwire]

I love it! Nothing makes me happier than stupid people getting busted for their own stupidity. If you don't want to get busted to illegal activity, perhaps you should not photograph or video yourself doing it?

 

[Ghostvirus]

Who needs to read 1984 anymore.

 

[katie_girl09]

If you are dumb enough to post pictures of yourself doing something illegal, you deserve to get busted. I don't care what it is. Same with YouTube videos. And who cares whether it was in his own home? Illegal activity is illegal activity. That means moot.

 

[CashforStash]

Wow, my friends better not be accepting any random girl friend requests now.......

 

[terry78]

Haha, I'm not a massive fan of using the net to judge people, but if you look like a *****ebag in some pictures online, regardless of it just being one wild night, people are gonna view you in that way. That's just how it is. You interview for a job at some prestigious company and the HR people find that pic of you online doing body shots off a hooker, might not get the job. Public domain.

 

[Nell2ThaIzzay]

People have way too much access to our personal lives these days.

 

[AndThePickles]

This has already been occurring for quite some time with college sports teams. The lacrosse team at my university had to disable their accounts because they got in trouble with the coach for constant partying/drinking.

 

[Nell2ThaIzzay]

Jobs / cops / coaches / authorities need to step away from people's Facebook accounts and stop prying into our personal lives.

 

[katie_girl09]

But... Isn't that what athletes *do*?

Jobs / cops / coaches / authorities need to step away from people's Facebook accounts and stop prying into our personal lives.

Or people could be smart and stop posting bad pictures of themselves. Or they have the option of just not using Facebook altogether. It's quite easy to live without it, actually. When you post stuff like that it pretty much becomes a public domain of sorts. It's different than if this was a picture in your house that they got access to.

 

[John Locke]

Jobs / cops / coaches / authorities need to step away from people's Facebook accounts and stop prying into our personal lives.

If you wanted your lives to be personal then you wouldn't put the pictures on the Internet.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

It's illegal to pose with a beer can?

That's not proof you actually ingested any beer.

All the kid has to say is he was in another country when the pic was taken. A country where the drinking age is lower.

 

[terry78]

It's illegal to pose with a beer can?

That's not proof you actually ingested any beer.

That's kind of splitting hairs. You pose with one to put online, it's pretty safe to say you did some sipping.

 

[Metamorpho1977]

Facebook AKA our generations Gestapo

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

That's kind of splitting hairs. You pose with one to put online, it's pretty safe to say you did some sipping.

Some one could easily posed with an empty beer bottle to look cool. Doesn't mean they actually drank anything.

Teens do all kinds of posing in pics to look cool. Posing with a beer bottle just for kick is not out of the question.

If I legally smoke weed in Amsterdam and take pics, I can be arrested for posession of marijuana in the states?

 

[katie_girl09]

Some one could easily posed with an empty beer bottle to look cool. Doesn't mean they actually drank anything.

Teens do all kinds of posing in pics to look cool. Posing with a beer bottle just for kick is not out of the question.

This is probably what happened:

I'd say that the pictures found online only led to the kid getting in trouble. Like this:

Cop: Is that you holding a beer can? Were you drinking?

Kid: I had a couple.

Cop: Thanks for letting me know! You could've been holding the can for you dad!

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

If you wanted your lives to be personal then you wouldn't put the pictures on the Internet.

The article says others were busted in the pic even though they didn't post the picture. They simply had the misfortune of being in the picture that was posted.

 

[Hotwire]

People have way too much access to our personal lives these days.

And it is no one's fault but our own. If you choose to post every detail about yourself on a public website, then you have no right to complain when people view it. It's like walking down the street naked and then getting upset when people look at you.

With sites like Facebook and MySpace, you are inviting the general public to check out what goes on in your personal life.

 

[Paroxysm]

There are tons of facebook pictures of me drinking and blazing, this doesn't concern me at all, the drinking age is 19 in Canada and i'm 26.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Cops posing as hot chicks to bust people. Reminds me of a South Park episode.

"Freeze!"

And it is no one's fault but our own. If you choose to post every detail about yourself on a public website, then you have no right to complain when people view it. It's like walking down the street naked and then getting upset when people look at you.

With sites like Facebook and MySpace, you are inviting the general public to check out what goes on in your personal life.

People also have private pages at MySpace and Facebook for friends and family. Then here comes mr.nanny-law cop posing as a hot chick to beg for some riske pics.

Why lie about your identity? Why request pics that weren't posted?

It's not like a cop was just minding his own business picking his kids up from school them he notices a billboard of Jimmy downing a forty. The pictures were private until the cop lied about his/her identity and requested the pics.

 

[bgates87]

How dare they try to hold us responsible for our actions! It's a free country, right? Free from consequences?

 

[John Locke]

If you posted those pics for friends and family then why give them a some hot girl anyway. Why would you give those pics to a stranger?

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

If you posted those pics for friends and family then why give them a some hot girl anyway. Why would you give those pics to a stranger?

He probably wanted to get laid and figured he'd show his party animal side.

Why would that hot chick on myspace begging for party pics be a cop? Seems like a tasteless and predatory for a law person to get justice.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

How dare they try to hold us responsible for our actions! It's a free country, right? Free from consequences?

Yeah cops should lie about being hot chicks and beg minors for unlawful pics.

That's a great use of tax payer money. Hopefully every hot chick on the internet will really be a cop searching for party pics of 20 year olds at keggers.