Archive for Facebook

Teacher posts duct taped students picture, now assigned arbitrator

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013

An Akron, Ohio teacher is in hot water after she allegedly posted a picture on her personal Facebook wall, showing some of her middle school students with duct tape over their mouths back in Oct. 2012. The teacher has been on paid leave since Oct. 19. Melissa Cairns, a math teacher at the new Buchtel ... read more »

Facebook rolls out big Timeline changes

Wednesday, January 9th, 2013

Some Facebook users in New Zealand and parts of Europe have a warning for their Facebook friends across the pond —  this week Facebook rolled out another major design change to user’s walls. Facebook users may be pleasantly surprised with the changes however, with those currently using the latest redesign reporting some added flexibility and ... read more »

Children take to Facebook in viral plea for a pet cat

Tuesday, November 13th, 2012

Two young Newton, Massachusetts, children took to their mother’s Facebook page to make a case to their dad for a pet cat. Apparently the children’s father, Dan Urbano, told his kids if they could get 1,000 Facebook ‘likes’ on a message or photo about their request for Urbano to get them a cat, he would get ... read more »

Amanda Todd, 15, dead after relentless bullying by peers and an Internet predator

Tuesday, October 16th, 2012

Amanda Todd, 15,  was a Canada high school student who took her own life last Wednesday after she made a huge mistake and couldn’t live with the bullying aftermath. Todd made a mistake she couldn’t live down. Todd was fooling around with her girlfriends on a webcam and filmed herself with her shirt off. A ... read more »

Mother potty trains nude twins in the middle of restaurant

Thursday, September 6th, 2012

Patrons at the Thanksgiving Point Deli in Lehi, Utah, witnessed a very unusual scene during the lunch rush on Tuesday – a mother potty training her twin daughters right at their table in the middle of the restaurant. The two girls had their clothing pulled completely down and were perched naked on portable toddler toilets ... read more »

Parents pose as 15-year-old on Facebook to show daughter her sex offender man is bad news

Wednesday, September 5th, 2012

Sedro-Wooley, Washington, parents pulled off an elaborate sting to prove to their daughter that her registered sex offender boyfriend, Liam Elms, was bad news. Jesper and Julie Myrfors said that when their 16-year-old daughter first introduced them to Elms he seemed charming.  Then, they found out that he was a registered sex offender and tried, ... read more »

Facebook for children under 13 may be on the way

Monday, June 4th, 2012

Facebook is exploring ways to allow children under 13 to use the site. The policy against children under 13 is partly due to the fact that children that age need parental supervision before any information — particularly the kind that Facebook deals in — can be collected, and partly due to privy and safety concerns. ... read more »

Teen’s Facebook photo leads to robbery

Monday, May 28th, 2012

Check your privacy settings! An Australian teenager learned a hard lesson about privacy when her parent’s house was robbed just hours after she posted a photo of a large amount of money belonging to her 72-year-old grandmother. The 17-year-old was helping her grandmother count her savings in Sydney when she posted a photo of the ... read more »

Facebook removes pictures of deceased baby, suspends outraged parent’s account

Sunday, May 20th, 2012

Outraged parents Heather and Patrick Walker are looking for answers from the social networking giant Facebook as to why they took down the pictures she posted of her son, Grayson James Walker, who was born February 15, 2012 with a rare birth defect, and why she her account was later suspended. Baby Grayson, from Memphis, ... read more »

Mom uses Facebook to shame daughter

Thursday, April 26th, 2012

An Ohio mom has found a unique way to punish her daughter for talking back — by publicly shaming her on Facebook. Denise Abbott reportedly became fed up with her daughter Ava, 13, being disrespectful to her. So she decided to create a profile picture of Ava and posted it to the popular social networking ... read more »

New “couples only” social network idea gaining popularity

Monday, March 12th, 2012

For those who feel that sending messages of love (or lust) to their partners on Facebook is a bit too exhibitionist for them, the new Between “global couple platform” may be just what the love doctor ordered. The site allows more online intimacy between two (and only two) people, allowing you to send private messages ... read more »

Daughter of viral video laptop shooting dad, “He over-reacted”

Wednesday, March 7th, 2012

The daughter of the man who shot up her laptop after she posted a rant on her Facebook page (about how unfairly she was treated by her parents), was on the Today show this morning to discuss her father’s famous viral video and how it affected her. Hannah Marie said she thought her dad may ... read more »

How a Korean father would respond to daughter’s facebook rant

Thursday, February 16th, 2012

Here’s how a Korean father would shame his daughter had she wrote smack about her Dad on da ‘Book Face’ah’:

Dad posts video response to daughter’s Facebook rant

Thursday, February 9th, 2012

While most parents of teenagers roll their eyes when their kid complains about what a “rough” life they have, one dad took it a step further when his daughter put up a rant on her Facebook wall about all of the chores she has to do. In response, this father of a rebellious 15-year-old girl ... read more »

18-year-old arrested after bragging about burglary on Facebook

Tuesday, December 27th, 2011

PROTIP: If you don’t want to be busted for burglary, don’t post about it on Facebook. That’s a bit of advice Isaiah Cutler, 18, of Pittsburgh learned a bit too late after police arrested him for the burglary of a convenience store with three other teens after Cutler posted a photo on his Facebook wall ... read more »