Woman arrested for Facebook poke
FOR MOST FACEBOOK users 'poking' someone is simply an affectionate gesture, a way to flirt with a total stranger or perhaps mildly annoying joshing, but for one woman it's meant an arrest.
Shannon Jackson, a 36 year-old from Hendersonville, Tennessee previously had been accused of harassing, threatening and verbally abusing Dana Hannah and had a protective order put in place banning Jackson from "telephoning, contacting or otherwise communicating with the petitioner."
Apparently, Jackson jumped onto the popular social notworking site and sent Hannah a 'poke.'
Rather than just blocking Jackson from her profile, Hannah promptly took a screen grab of the message and passed it on to the local constabulary. It was viewed as breaking the court order and Jackson was arrested.
While the popularity of social networks continues to grow, with Facebook having recently hit 300 million users, these sites have been encountered issues around cyber-bullying, most famously in the Megan Meier suicide case at Facebook's rival site Myspace.
This case could set an interesting precedent in the US and the rest of world for those hoping to use online social networks as a way of sidestepping orders such as these, either by hoping that the websites won't be recognised as communication channels by the authorities, or by hiding behind fake profiles.
Jackson faces trial in the Sumner County General Sessions Court on 28 October.
If found guilty of breaching the protective order, which is similar to a restraining order, it would be a class A misdemeanour and she could face up to a year in jail and a fine of up to a $2,500. µ
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Sounds like she's a head case and needs to spend some time in the Iron Bar Hotel. Let's face it, those on Farcebook need to get a real life...
Dana Hanna OBVIOUSLY created a fake account and poked HERSELF! There is no evidence showing otherwise and people who have no life (facebook users)tend to be dramaqueens and make life hell for other people. I doubt very much if Shannon even has a facebook account of her own..
Show me otherwise!!
Oh, cops are stupid for jumping the gun on this. Must be an inbreeder state!
@John: Those on 'Farcebook' need to get a real life? This isn't MySpace, Facebook is an effective way of communicating with your friends. It allows you to "instant message" while doing homework/watching TV/on the computer in general, update pictures from REAL-LIFE events, and meet new people. Either you are 40 years old, or you have no friends.
@mogwai: I see you also think people on Facebook have no life as well, but I think I've already covered that. Next, you say the users are 'dramaqueens'. Ehh.. What? I just said this isn't MYSPACE, Facebook is the most popular social networking site in the world right now. Writing any profane language on any else's profile is grounds of a permanent ban. Facebook is geared towards people in high school and college and beyond. A little respect for one of the most popular websites on the internet would be nice.
You can't demand respect, you must earn it. Facebook is just another distraction for bored people without a life as are cellphones for most people.
What is commenting on this article other than a distration for the bored?
So she wasn't arrested for poking someone on Facebook then.
She was arrested for breaking a court order - quite a serious offence.
If this was a story on the BBC News site about Andy Kershaw breaking his restraining order by contacting his former partner via Facebook, it wouldn't be laughed at.
I've never been attracted to social networking sites (not even sites like Friends Reunited in the 90s), but I really don't think you can say facebook is only for people with no lives.
It really has become mainstream to the point that people working in some industries or living in some social groups would actually lose out if they weren't signed up. That may be a sad state of affairs, but there's no use burrying your head in the sand like a Luddite ostrich.
Here's a perfect example of an only too real part of 'real life' incorporating Facebook:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/8305632.stm
Or do you think this proves Simon Sawers is a sad case who needs to get out more?
???? I read the article you pointed to and I don't see your point. The article was pretty badly written jumping around and not really giving any information other than some broad being thrown in a dumpster and some poor sod moaning on facebook.