Police Arrest Woman for Facebook Poke

Though this story is more complex than information technology sounds, police undergo arrested a woman for performing a Facebook poke.

Connected September 25, Shannon D. Jackson of Hendersonville, Tennessee was arrested for poking one of her friends on Facebook. A poke is performed by visiting a Facebook friend's page and then clicking along the poke button. The somebody is notified that you poked them, and the whole situation ends there. That is, unless you adjudicate to poke back, but we won't go bad into that mucilaginous mess.

The woman that was poked had filed a legal order of protection against Helen Hunt Jackson (for reasons unknown), ensuant in the arrest after police determined that Jackson had violated it with her reckless poking. This parliamentary law prohibits any sort of communication at all, even poking via cyberspace. Proof of the poke was provided to government through and through a mark-unsuccessful.

There's a giant hole in this story if you harbor't caught it til now. Anybody that uses Facebook and has broken up with a operative new or ended a friendship violently knows that you can easily hit people from your friends list. Facebook aside default, in my experience, does non allow the poking of people that are non on your friends list. So, in this case, the poking victim could have just remote Jesse Jackson from her friends list.

If she had gone through with the disorder of filing a legal order of protection, why would she keep Jackson as a friend on Facebook? Was it perhaps because she wanted to keep sprouted with Jackson's condition updates? Oregon maybe they were neighbors in FarmVille and just couldn't break such a bullnecked in bondage? If you don't know what FarmVille is, god bless you. Now pretend you never scan the give voice and live a lank, productive life.

This is yet another case of a virtual action having real-life consequences. The law now has to consider new kinds of situations when it comes to the rapidly evolving social group networking worlds of Facebook and Chitter and MySpa… okay maybe just Facebook and Chitter. As stupid as it sounds, if Jackson did purposely poke the unnamed cleaning lady, she probably should rightfully suffer the consequences. The problem could sleep with proving that Jackson really performed the poke in a court of law, which to me would seem like something out of Seinfeld.

Source: ABC Newsworthiness via Slashdot

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