Apparently not having Facebook makes you "suspicious" (epic facepalm)

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

The amount of mistranslations coming from this trial is making me highly suspicious of anything the news says about it.

Also, the Daily Mail. No more needs to be said, but I'll say it anyway. They have outright fabricated news stories in the past, and no doubt they will do it again. In this age of digital media all it takes is for one person to write a false news story on their blog and the major outlets will copy it as is.

So highly reserved as to whether even part of this is true.

 

[Gardenia]

Forbes [http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/08/06/beware-tech-abandoners-people-without-facebook-accounts-are-suspicious/]


Daily fail [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2184658/Facebook-Some-employers-psychologists-say-avoiding-social-media-suspicious.html?ICO=most_read_module]

An expert noted that mass murderers Anders Breivik and James Holmes both lacked much of a social media presence, leading to the conclusion, in Slashdot?s phrasing, that ?not having a Facebook account could be the first sign that you are a mass murderer.?

Well shit, think what you will, but this is both stupid... and dangerous. Not everyone likes being watched 24/7. Not everyone wants to be an open book on the internet, me included. I'd wager that it's much more interesting to know people who don't share everything on Facebook, who like to keep their private life just that.

Breivik had a Facebook account. What does it really take for the media to call you an expert these days?

 

[Alcamonic]

One could analyze the situation and think that: Not having Facebook makes you a successful mass murderer. If they now had Facebook and made a comment "I will kill people at the batman opening tonight!" someone would probably notify the police.

Of course it could just be a load of bullshit, it is the dailymail after all.

I also don't have an active facebook account (tried, didn't see the point in it), and I will probably kill someone before going back.

 

[Tollo]

I have Facebook but I spend far to much time doing over things, and I would like to keep it that way. People who have free will and don't check Facebook every 5 minuets have the capacity to plan something horrible or you know something for the greater good, it's because we are not giving up our life's to something that will be remembers like Myspace is today IN A FEW YEARS.

Also Breivik had a Facebook account that got banned after his mass murder spree, also that other guy I doubt he was even a bit social because he didn't have any friends so he seeked out a character to pretend to be as his mental state slowly crumbled away in till well I don't want to type.

 

[Toilet]

That article was so dumb it makes me want to buy a large gun and go to the Daily Mail offices.

 

[No social life]

I have TWO FaceBook accounts, so that means I'm DOUBLY not a serial killer. Sweet.

ah, but if having FB makes you not a serial-killer, then having two account would make you not not a serial killer, I'm on to you...

I have 3 btw...

I have 4 (I was bored), and I have never made a single post on any of them,

 

[geon106]

If I was a mass-murderer i'd use Facebook to lurk on peoples profiles. I do that anyway but not for the same reasons

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

(sarcasm mode set to 11) I only got on The Facebooks last year, I wonder how many people I killed before then?

Next they'll be saying if you don't play "generic"ville Facebook games, you're guilty of genocide.

 

[SirPlindington]

That's just stupid. My murder habit has nothing to do with my lack of a Facebook account.

 

[No social life]

sorry double post, Ignore.

 

[AdumbroDeus]

I love how this thread is taking this so personally when what they're pointing out as a warning sign is being socially disconnected, which not having a facebook tends to suggest.


It puts you in a group significantly more like likely, we're talking about still probably less then .1%, but still.

 

[Oly J]

I have a facebook account I don't use much....does that count?

 

[hazabaza1]

wut
I thought the internet and stuff was what made people kill other people?

Also, didn't Holmes have an Adultfriendfinder account? So he didn't really lack a social media presence.

 

[Angie7F]

Actually it serves as handy list of people and reminder why would you want to kill them.

Me too.
When I was in high school and college i wanted to mass slaughter the idiots at school.
I graduated and became mellower and stopped wanting for everyone to die.

In walks facebook and reconnects with me all the idiots.
Now I have tons of "friends" but I am unsubscribed from 95% of their posts to keep my sanity.