It’s is a common story in the time of social networking for someone to be stalked via the internet. Story after story has been reported on this occurring and ending up in court cases and restraining orders if it’s a happy ending. So maybe by now you are wondering why exactly I would be blogging about such a story, and the answer is because the maker of the largest social network is the victim this time, Mark Zuckerberg. Through his own creation of Facebook he has been stalked by Pradeep Manukonda who has continually asked for money and threatened Zuckerberg. In one of the messages he even told Zuckerberg "please help me, then I am ready to die for you ... Please understand my pain."
This situation absolutely reeks with irony. I laughed out loud when I first read the headline of this article. Of all the people out there with Facebook it is the creator that is facing problems through the site. I think it is great to have the world so interconnected, but this shows that no one is safe from the internet. Anyone can get access to some of your information on the internet, especially through social networking sites. It makes me wonder how easy it would be for someone to get all the information they needed to pretend to be me, or even steal my identity. As I was applying for college and all they asked for was my birth date to verify who I was I decided it was time to change my birthday on Facebook. Sure it’ll mean having all my “well wishers” telling me happy birthday on the wrong day, but my real life friends that I spend time with outside of the internet will know the truth, and they are the important friends.
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