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Delusional Lady Insists She's Student's Mother on Facebook

by Terrence O'Brien on September 11, 2009 at 06:29 AM

Crazy Lady Insists Shes Student's Mother on Facebook

When College Humor is your source, you can't assume the material is 100-percent real. But that said, even if "Facebook Mom" is purely fictional, it's not hard to imagine that someone has experienced something similar.

According to the popular humor site, the above screen shot depicts a Facebook conversation between a Penn State student and some woman who seems to think she is his mother. The image was passed to the writer by his brother, to whom it was forwarded by a friend.

The conversation starts like this:
Slightly Dense Woman: Dear Gregory, My friend Susan just started on the facebook and she helped me set one up too. She's using it to talk to her son in graduate school and I thought that since you have trouble returning voicemails from your dear old mother I'd give it a try. xoxo, MOM
Confused Student: hey ms _____ i think you've got the wrong person. honest mistake im sure.
And winds up like this:
SDW: Or you could just tell that slimy whore of a stepmother you have that she could have brought you and your brothers to baseball practice all these years. I'm footing half of this tuition...
It gets worse from there. Check out College Humor for the entire conversation, and a reminder of why not to let your (or anybody's) parents use Facebook. [From: College Humor]
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Facebook Crime and Punishment

Facebook Crime and Punishment

    Blackmail
    Sending any personal info or incriminating pictures to someone on Facebook is a huge mistake for many reasons. One of the worst possible outcomes is getting blackmailed for money, sex, or, well, anything these sickos dream up. Really, whether they're using a fake profile or not, it's a horrible idea. Read up on the story of an 18-year-old who blackmailed 31 male classmates after he posed as a girl and asked for nude pictures. That's lesson enough.

    Impostors
    Sure, it can be harmless to impersonate a celeb online or create a fake profile for a movie character. But seriously, there's a definite line you shouldn't cross when pretending to be someone else and it can lead to dire consequences for you. Maybe it's not as extreme as the Moroccan man who was jailed for 43 days after creating a fake Facebook profile of a prince, but you never know. Just steer clear of it.

    Self-Incrimination
    Do we really have to explain this? Just look up the shoplifter who posed with her stolen merchandise, the many photos of drunk underage teens, and, most recently, the album featuring a couple who killed and ate an endangered iguana in the Bahamas.

    Suicide
    Social networking sites has been blamed for a lot of things, fairly and unfairly, but in our opinion, the worst offense has been their indirect involvement in suicides. Obviously, there are a lot of factors responsible in each case, but there does seem to be links between social networking and a rash of suicides, and obviously tehre's the case tragic of Megan Meier, who killed herself after a classmate's mom impersonated a teen boy and harassed her over Myspace.

    Murder
    We've reported on numerous incidents of people getting in trouble because of their online behavior. Now, people are becoming victims because of what they're doing on the Web too. In England, a man was convicted of murdering his estranged wife after she changed her relationship status to "single." So, be careful of who can see your profile and what you're doing, no matter how harmless it seems.

    Nigerian Scammers
    Oh, you thought this only happened via poorly worded emails, right? WRONG. Once people got wise to their old ways, these con men are turning to social networking sites for new targets. This time, they're hacking into people's accounts and impersonating them to ask for money, usually with some weird sob story. You can check out a transcript of one of these conversations here.

    Cooperation
    Even if the law isn't on a case, a victim, his friends, or empathetic strangers might be. Since it's easy to get word out for anything online, people are using blogs, forums, and social networking sites to help track down criminals. In one such case, a vehicle thief was tracked down by a bunch of anonymous car enthusiasts after the victim posted his story on a forum. In the end, they identified the guy through his Facebook profile.

    Self-Incrimination
    Do we really have to explain this? Just look up the shoplifter who posed with her stolen merchandise, the many photos of drunk underage teens, and, most recently, the album featuring a couple who killed and ate an endangered iguana in the Bahamas.

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