Facebook users target innocent man
A man living in Burnaby is being falsely accused of killing 19 year old Jamie Kehoe during a Surrey bus ride on Oct 7. Rumours spread on facebook and consequently caused the innocent man to lose his job and deteriorate his status in society.
I personally have had many bad experiences with using social networking. Some of the things I posted were so impulsive that this one time a police officer had to come in and talk to me about how unacceptable and inappropriate my posts were. But that was way back when I was in the 7th grade and it's fair to say that we've all said and done stupid things when we were very young, especially when introduced to the internet at such an early age.
However this scenario is different in that the stupid things being typed on facebook is coming from users that should be old enough and responsible to know just what kind of chain reaction they're setting off by targeting any random person and spreading a rumour that they killed someone. I bet the people that spread those false rumours just love to feed off of all the controversy and drama that ensued.
The moral here applies to anyone that posts stuff on the internet; whether you're replying or creating, think before you post. The internet is not a toy. It is a tool. A tool used to provide people with an unlimited source of information from sources that may or may not be trustworthy. However it is responsibility of the reader to show maturity and good judgment when reading any material posted on the internet.
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