The depravity of Facebook

[Fruit of Islam]

A disabled father of 12 scavenging for cans is killed for sport by 16-year-old, who got two friends to take turns filming the murder

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/16/12768242-3-teens-charged-in-beating-death-of-disabled-man-posted-on-facebook

Facebook seems to have been created to exploit the lower human need for approval. I am shocked at how many businesses now have signs saying "Like us on Facebook."

The disconnect of killing someone and then posting it should chill everyone to the bone. Technology and the breakdown in society are very troubling indeed...

[2ndAmForComputers]

1. You might as well say paper is depraved, for all the murderers who wrote letters before the Internet

[Fruit of Islam]

2. You didn't catch when I mentioned the promotion of approval?

FB is all about impressing other people, fitting in, being a sheeple. Being "liked" (which is an adolescent longing) is a major goal. It's utterly pathetic.

[Ian David]

5. Yes, because until there was Facebook, there was no way for people to seek the approval of others.

God help us all when someone invents a way for us to ridicule someone by saying the opposite of what we mean.

When they do, I think they should call it "sarcasm."

[Fruit of Islam]

10. Honey, thanks for treating me like I'm thick.

FYI, FB broadcasts these things far and wide. Likewise, Youtube. You see this uptick on violence being filmed specifically to film it and show the masses.

[2ndAmForComputers]

11. Ian David has a habit of treating people fairly and accurately.

[Ian David]

9. It's a good thing you didn't expect anyone here to agree with you, or you would be a hypocrite...

... for seeking our approval.

[Electric Monk]

16. You win the thread

[DavidDvorkin]

3. It was a horrible crime, but your post is absurd.

[pinboy3niner]

8. +1

[MrSlayer]

4. More like the depravity of three assholes that should be killed in turn.

How is the onus on Facebook? If it wasn't for Facebook these pieces of shit would not have gotten caught so quickly, if at all.. Give them their day in court and hang them. It's better than they deserve.

[Fruit of Islam]

6. I am not suggesting that FB killed the poor old man

I am saying that the whole FB mentality, which is narcissism on parade: "Hey, look at me!" 24/7, fed into the pathology of someone who felt so small that he thought that someone would be impressed that he murdered someone and put it online.

[2ndAmForComputers]

13. That can very well be used to describe your post.

"Hey, look at me! Look how righteously outraged I am! Am I not a paragon of moral rectitude? Come on, adulate me! Rec this thread!"

Another poster down below is correct: the only way not to partake in the vanity is not to use the Internet at all. A line of action I heartily recommend.

[Ian David]

17. Then again, this *is* how many of those people get caught in the first place.

You COULD say that Facebook serves as a place for stupid people to accidentally turn themselves in.

[lunatica]

7. What makes you think it doesn't chill everyone to the bone?

The fact they tape it and show it online isn't a reflection on any depravity other than their own.

[GoneOffShore]

12. Perhaps you should stop surfing the internet.

And this has nothing to actually do with the Internet or Facebook. It has to do with people who are never taught ethics or how to be a good person.

[DevonRex]

14. This guy won't be coming back folks. Nt

[Ian David]

18. Thank you. I don't think we will miss him. n/t

[DevonRex]

19. Not one bit. The bigotry was strong in that one. Nt

[uppityperson]

15. Thank you MIRT. eom

[Puregonzo1188]

20. Facebook isn't responsible for the killing. Just like comic books, metal music, DOOM, or hip hop

weren't.

[Edweird]

21. That's some specious reasoning you've got going on there.

[slampoet]

22. Sure It must be some service that someone else uses, It isn't YOUR computer.

Maybe you should destroy your computer since that is the only place where these events you mention are connected.