Man Gets Jailtime For Sending Facebook Request
Beware of who you add to your Facebook friends!
Valleywag picked up on the story of a UK man who was given 10 days in jail, after sending his wife a facebook invite, because he had been given a no-contact order after harassing her with text messages and phone calls.
I’ve been working hard to reduce the number of facebook friends I have, but it has got harder as now I’m getting invites from friends of friends who I don’t know. One lady who I didn’t know sent me an invite the other day because we had 10 mutual friends, so she said ‘I’m sure we’ll meet someday!’.
One clever trick I’ve developed is to accept invites, and then to delete people a few days later as they don’t get a notice to say that I’ve deleted them. Nobody’s noticed so far, but if anybody does, I’ll just say it must have been a facebook error
I’m up to around 200 facebook friends and I think I’m going to keep my friends list at around this number, unlike networks like LinkedIn where I’ll accept invites from just about anybody.


Comment by Pranjal on 12 October 2007:
Sound hilarious rather then serious…………
Comment by John on 13 October 2007:
I’m starting to feel like the only person who ISN’T on facebook… Bring back the good old days when we met friends (and friends of friends) in the pub!
Comment by abhishek on 13 October 2007:
Well such cases are on the rise.Some days back a kid of 16 was murdered by his friends on another social network site http://www.orkut.com in India.Its always advisable to be beware of who you are making friends with,
Comment by Thilak on 13 October 2007:
That’s insane! I wonder how modern social networking sites fit into the traditional law books? (I don’t know about UK, but atleast here in India… it doesn’t fit)
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Comment by Harishankar on 15 October 2007:
I too heard the one Orkut story, and couldn’t believe it. But it sometime happens. Now a days every social network is more used for marketing with spamming messages and ruins the complete system and makes it useless.
Comment by Sofna on 15 October 2007:
That is pretty funny, its like he broke a restraining order via internet….lol
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