Facebook chat leads to Rape ..

If a girl is raped because of Facebook then it is her fault. She should not trust anyone just like that. I mean facebook is for making friends right? It is not for you to fall easy prey to rapists. Girls please, please, be wise enough in choosing who are you gonna add as friend and who are you chatting with.

That is a scary story and unfortuneately it isn't the first time that something like that has happened. I have found some great friends online. Some of them have become very close friends in real life, and I know that it is possible to find friends on social networking sites, but we have to be very careful if we decide to meet people we don't know. Even when we have had many chat conversation with other person, we don't always know him or her. It is essy to hide your real personality online. Online friendship can be a great thing, but is important to be careful and to meet at a public place.

That is sick! What is wrong with people!?!?!? Though did they ever mention if she had ever met him in person before? I would of asked to meet and work on the project at the library or somewhere public. I hope the victim is ok after all this.

Hi, Gany15k. This is very scary. That is why my husband and I don't reveal our faces on Facebook. I also don't go by my real name. My husband has shortened his name. I don't have any photos of me on there at all. I was talking to my husband about this and he says that he is just not stupid enough to put his face and personal life all out on Facebook. I see many photos of peoples family and friends on Facebook. I could not show so many pictures of me on there. I wished that people would take these things seriously. A woman has lost her life to meeting a guy on Facebook. Now this teenager from India has been raped!! I can't tell women and men just enough, be careful of what all you give out on Facebook. It could cause you harm or your life.. Or it can be both at the same time. I am so sorry that this girl was raped. People that we all meet, we just have to be more wary and curious about before we meet up with them, especially alone somewhere.. Sooner or later if this keeps on happening, Facebook will be closed down because of lives being lost and harm being done unto others!!

ohhh myy gosshh!! so sorry to hear that. well I don' have a facebook now. But if I do, I'll make sure I won't share my personal information to strangers. Actually, I've heard different crimes that were done by people they just met online. There was this girl, I've heard in news, who was also raped by a friend she just met in facebook. We're preferring on different people because this happened here in our country.. too bad for them.. :(

I think this is very sad! And I think one of the biggest problems is most of the targets are young children/teenagers. And I believe it is because they grew up with facebook/myspace and immediately think it is safe. I am 21 and when I was about 13/14 when I started chatting and doing on social networks, I was always so careful. I didnt give any information out at all. But the kids now a days, think its a safe environment, when really, its only gotten more dangerous. Thank you for putting out a discussion about the awareness of being safe through facebook and also any other social networking site. The truth is we don't know who we are really talking to unless we have met them in person and trust them.

it is true that we should not put any personal information in the net and i guess we should only accept people as friends if we really know them. i can say that i have a few friends that i dont know really but we share one thing in common... FARMVILLE har har har. and i also have to say that parents needs to guide their children when it comes to joining sites like this.

Sad, you have to be very, very careful about people. Online people can represent themselves any way they want. If you're going to meet somebody you met online, best to do it in a public place with people around...

This is certainly not the first time this sort of thing has happened. A woman was murdered that was on a networking site that I was on last year. It happens more than we are aware of. It is a wake up call for all of us. Becareful and be sure you are secure when online. Not all people are killers or rapist but we have to be careful.

OMG! thats terrible and sad to hear or read that someones life prematurely was ended because of someone insane behavior, and I agree we should never give out our email address or phone numbers to complete strangers online because you cant tell if someones crazy from there profile pic. so we should all be very careful. And its unfortunate that a lot of the youths today feel that they can just give there personal info to random strangers they meet online basing there safty on a profile pic and a few kind words.

The social site sometimes can be used in many ways like having friends with somebody. In this case they know each other because of this social site and become friends as days go. And now they uses it and because they trust so it happen that one took advantage of doing such thing. You are right never to share our personal and private identity and don't give your trust to stranger just give a little bit and enough for him or her. Have a great day!

This is very alarming. It is very dangerous to trust strangers. Let's hope this will serve as an example,not to trust strangers. I also hope that,the victim will be served with the proper justice.

Hiya Gany, Not only younger ones are targeted. A certain Person from Spain contacted another through Chat and they met up in Spain and the said Person was murdered not that young either. Was abused and murdered such a waste of life because of details given that should never have been given. But most important of all this Person should never have gone running off to meet this other Person just like that without finding out about him first. You cannot trust anyone. You would like to trust them but you can´t and must not for your own safety.

Its really very sad story to know today. I wonder how she is going through. Anyway It was also not good decision she to go to guy place. They met through facebook that we cant blame on facebook. Only thing everybody should be alert and careful about themselves and their safety.

This is one of the reasons why I hate facebook so much. The site is being abused and the site owners have no liability whatsoever because the terms and conditions of the site state that it is still up to the user to secure their account and information. When my facebook profile was still active, the people that I added are really friends. I don't add people that I don't really know.

Yes, it is good to inform people about the dangers of trusting strangers.

Hey Gany~ This is the reason that you need to be so very careful about who you "hook up" with that you meet on any Internet Site! Adults keep trying to was teenagers to me extra careful about meeting people in private that they have only met on the Internet and they just don't listen! It is just too dangerous! You really don't know anything about someone that you meet behind a computer screen! They can tell you anything they want and be someone totally different as these people were! That is one of the reasons I am very opposed to Facebook! My girlfriend has 2 teenaged daughters that are on FB and MySpace and she worries about them all the time, but she is also on FB so I think she can sort of "monitor them" to an extent! There are too many really crazy people in this world and you shouldn't be so trusting!

Hi Gany, Such a thing could happen, it's so sad to hear. When it comes to social networking sites like facebook and chatting on it, we are not supposed to be so ignorant. Such a sad thing to hear. How can people tell so much about themselves without meeting with them personally? Even if they had to meet, they should have met up at some public place. C'mon now it's the first time they are going to see themselves. Introduction over the net is much more different than meeting for the first time personally, anybody could deceive others by telling lies while chatting.. The girl should have taken precaution and the boy took the advantage of an innocent girl!

Hi Gany, WE have lots of similar stories in our country where cases of rape happened to minors --students. they met the culprit via facebook and/or chat and even through text. It's crazy that things like this is happening to our younger generations. the culprits are taking advantage and abusing our teens need to belong. a need that is being satisfied by chatting, texting, exchanging of private messages through the social networking sites. once given the needed attention they are trapped for some risks!

It's sad to know about what happened to the girl. Facebook or any social networking sites should not be blamed for this though. They connect people in so many good ways. I use facebook only to catch up with old friends. If I don't know someone, I wouldn't add them as friends. Not even those who are friends of my friends. For the parents, it's ok to let your kids have fb accounts but teach them real well about safety and caution when dealing with people over the internet. If they are taught well, they will become responsible in their dealings with people.