Obsession with Facebook, kills.

The internet has significantly grown to become a powerful medium for communication and knowledge. Almost everything is done online. Here we have it, the latest craze over the online social networking site, Facebook, which has taken over Friendster. Facebook has such a powerful appeal, and the way it gets people addicted to it scares me. What interests me is the posting of pictures and comments by friends and online acquaintances. Yet, taking the viewpoint of practicality, Facebook does not have any educational purpose or informative purpose. It is more for cheap thrills and shallow entertainment value.


Man Murders Wife Over Facebook Entry

posted on Friday, 17 October 2008.

A 34 year old man was sentenced to life in prison for stabbing his wife to deathover a posting she made on the social networking site Facebook.

Wayne Forrester told police that he was devastated that his wife, also 34, had changed her online profile to "single" days after he moved out.

"She then posted messages on an internet website telling everyone that she had left me and was looking to meet other men. I loved Emma and felt totally devastated and humiliated by what she had done to me."

Forrester drove to her home in Croydon, south London, and attacked the mother-of-two on February 18, stabbing her with a kitchen knife and a meat cleaver.

Forrester was drunk and high on cocaine when he attacked the mother-of-two in the early hours as she slept. He proceeded ti beat her, tore out clumps of her hair, and repeatedly stabbed her in the head and neck.

He thought his wife, a payroll administrator, was having an affair and had threatened to kill her.

The court heard that a day before the murder, he called her parents and complained about his wife's facebook entry, which he said "made her look like a fool."



This article is an appropriate example to illustrate the overpowering influence the internet has on users. A murder was committed simply because of a status change on her profile. It shows how significantly people are affected by social networking sites and even to the extent of murder for jealousy. It creeps me out, the addiction and obsessiveness Facebook can create, whereby this man has evidently lost his life and mind in cyberspace. Although Facebook may seem to be a harmless and entertaining site to socialize on the internet, just beware of the overwhelming adverse effects it poses. Given our heavy dependence on the internet and these social networking sites, our world might just turn topsy turvey under the rule of computers! Yucks, this thought makes my hair stand on ends.