Facebook is a great tool and social networking site, millions of people all over the world use it to communicate and keep in touch with each other. Over the past year or two, Facebook has grown significantly and along with it so have the complaints. Facebook has been banned in some countries because it allows people to express their opinions, others refuse to use it because of it’s privacy settings and many workplaces ban it because it distracts employees.
However at the end of the day, Facebook is a great social networking site, and for once some positive news has come out of it.
A California mother whose children were kidnapped 15 years ago has been reunited with them through Facebook. An unnamed San Bernardino woman lost her son and daughter in 1995 when her then-husband made off with the 2- and 3-year-old toddlers and said she would never see them again.
According to KCCI.com, the mother began searching for her teenage daughters on Facebook, and eventually she found them in Central Florida. She then added her daughter as a friend and they began messaging back and fort.
Once the mother was certain this was her daughter, she immediately contacted the San Bernardino Deputy,Attorney Kurt Rowley.
Utrera, the Father was then arrested and is now charged with two counts of kidnapping, and two counts of violating child custody orders. The children were then placed in the custody of the Department of Children and Families and since the father was in jail, the custody of the two teenagers was given to the Mother.
It just goes to show how much the internet has exploded in the last number of years, it has come from something that only geeks and nerds would use with there 56K modems to something that the whole world uses in every day life. And as we can see, social networking sites like Facebook can do more than just waste your time, but can actually reunite families.
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