PSA: Facebook is not a fact checking site.

[highland145]

Unless you're an idiot. +1 for the Police. People were gathering at his house? WTH?

Philadelphia police say someone posted false information on Facebook identifying a city man as the Kensington Strangler. Now, police want to get the word out to protect the man from vigilante justice. Police Lieutenant Ray Evers says police found out about the Facebook posting mid-Monday morning. The fan page had a photo of a man and his address.
“This fan page was saying this man was the Kensington Strangler. Looking at this picture, we notified Homicide and Special Victims and they said, no this male is not a subject in this investigation and is not wanted in this investigation.”
Evers says the man was at his mother’s home and people were gathering outside, so he called police to tell them it wasn’t him. The man was then escorted by 25th District Police to Special Victims where he was interviewed, and cleared, and then he was taken to Homicide.
“We utilized our own Facebook page, and it was our duty to say that this male was not wanted, was not a subject of our investigation.”
Evers says Facebook is a social network; it is not a fact checking site, and this can be damaging to innocent people.
“This is an instance — unfortunately there was not a vetting process — and somebody’s photo was put up there and it was the wrong person.”
Police do not know who posted the photo but it has been taken down. If that individual is identified, charges could be pending.

http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2010/12/21/man-on-facebook-is-not-the-‘kensington-strangler’/

 

[joesmoke]

i get all choked up just thinking about how badly this could have gone... they need to put a gag order on that persons facebook account

 

[FDF12389]

Nice

 

[MedicBob]

So I can leave now?

 

[techs]

Poor guy. It was Philadelphia for pete's sake.
They snowballed Santa. Imagine what they would have done to this guy.

 

[highland145]

Poor guy. It was Philadelphia for pete's sake.
They snowballed Santa. Imagine what they would have done to this guy.

Trees and rope are what came to mind first.

 

[Pardus]

Philadelphia police say someone posted false information on Facebook identifying a city man as the Kensington Strangler

now you see why facebook should be shut down, this type of occurrence will only get worse.

 

[highland145]

now you see why facebook should be shut down, this type of occurrence will only get worse.

Blame it on the idiots worshiping at the facebook alter.

 

[TheVrolok]

Blame it on the idiots worshiping at the facebook alter.

Which, unfortunately, is what, a couple hundred million people?

 

[ShawnD1]

Trees and rope are what came to mind first.

lol because Philadelphia has so many black people :awe:


People who religiously follow facebook are retarded. More news at 10 then again at 11.

 

[highland145]

Which, unfortunately, is what, a couple hundred million people?

Likely. But we don't want them here, do we?

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

now you see why facebook should be shut down, this type of occurrence will only get worse.

Also the government should shut down all newspapers, magazines, radio stations, TV stations and book publishers. This can only get worse, and we definitely need someone (the government) looking out for us.

 

[Fritzo]

I just read on Facebook that it actually is, so you're wrong.

 

[Bateluer]

Yet another reason why I'm not regretting deleting my Facebook account.

 

[highland145]

I just read on Facebook that it actually is, so you're wrong.

Well, of course, you would expect a site that causes adultery and lynchings to claim to be the new snopes.

 

[ShawnD1]

Remember how in soviet russia you could be sent the goulag on the mere suspicion that you did something wrong? Yeah. Think about it. Facebook = worse than hitler

 

[BurnItDwn]

What a bunch of fucking idiots.

facebookers in general seem to be like those aolers who insist upon forwarding all their junk chainmail letters to a million people so that kittens don't die and elvis lives.

 

[ShawnD1]

What a bunch of fucking idiots.

facebookers in general seem to be like those aolers who insist upon forwarding all their junk chainmail letters to a million people so that kittens don't die and elvis lives.

If this thread doesn't get at least 20 replies in the next hour, elvis will kill a number of bunnies equivalent to 20 - X where X is the number of replies actually received. For each hour following, the number of bunnies killed will be h*(20-X) where h is the number of hours following this post. 2 hours would require 40 posts or 40 bunnies will die less the number of posts. The number of posts are cumulative so you won't need to get 40 that hour, just an additional 20 per hour. After a number of hours, the expression simplies to (h!)(20n-sum(X from 1 to n))

Seriously. Bunnies.

 

[QueBert]

What a bunch of fucking idiots.

facebookers in general seem to be like those aolers who insist upon forwarding all their junk chainmail letters to a million people so that kittens don't die and elvis lives.

Please don't insult AOLers like that, yeah they were annoying with the chain letters. But unlike FB I never had a single AOLer preach to me about how my life was incomplete due to me not having an account. According to some people I know in the FB cult I'm missing out on life by not being on there.

 

[Anonemous]

Please don't insult AOLers like that, yeah they were annoying with the chain letters. But unlike FB I never had a single AOLer preach to me about how my life was incomplete due to me not having an account. According to some people I know in the FB cult I'm missing out on life by not being on there.

How do you know they didn't just make a FB profile for you and are spreading lies? /puts on tinfoil hat

 

[Dumac]

Please don't insult AOLers like that, yeah they were annoying with the chain letters. But unlike FB I never had a single AOLer preach to me about how my life was incomplete due to me not having an account. According to some people I know in the FB cult I'm missing out on life by not being on there.

They probably mean you are missing out on all the parties, which is likely true.

I have a FB account and never use it, yet it stills serves its purpose in receiving event invitations. I hear about most events through FB.

 

[Bateluer]

They probably mean you are missing out on all the parties, which is likely true.

I have a FB account and never use it, yet it stills serves its purpose in receiving event invitations. I hear about most events through FB.

Does their password reset tool work yet? For the 6 months I watched it, it didn't. Every attempt to change or reset your login password would fail.

 

[BurnItDwn]

They probably mean you are missing out on all the parties, which is likely true.

I have a FB account and never use it, yet it stills serves its purpose in receiving event invitations. I hear about most events through FB.

I don't think any of my friends have ever done any sort of an invite for anything through face book. Then again, I am 30, so pretty much all of my friends can afford cell phones....

 

[Number1]

There is a new feature coming out on facebook soon. It's face recognition software that you will be able to use to tag your pictures. If somebody post your picture and tags it on facebook, you can be recognised everywhere you go....
Think of it, If you walk into a store, the clerk will be able to know who you are using a camera and facebook.

Nothing you can do about it either you poor poor facebook haters....
LOL

 

[meltdown75]

I don't think any of my friends have ever done any sort of an invite for anything through face book. Then again, I am 30, so pretty much all of my friends can afford cell phones....

you're probably one of those damn texters...