Friday, October 17, 2008

perils of updating a Facebook profile

MailOnline: Husband hacked wife to death with meat cleaver after she changed Facebook status to single

Yikes. This is an awful and tragic story, but it does remind me of the time Scott seemed to have inadvertently ended our relationship for several hours on Facebook.

A few months ago after we had set-up our Facebook profiles officially confirming our relationship, I noticed Scott's profile suddenly listed him as "single". At first I assumed it was a mistake -- especially since everything seemed to be fine with us after three years. But then I began to wonder and thought, "Gee, that would be a perfect subtle, non-confrontational way to dump someone -- something I certainly would not be above doing." Fortunately, Scott re-assured me it was a mistake and no meat cleavers were needed, but I still check occassionally. :)

(via DrudgeReport.com)

1 comment:

grace said...

yikes!

stories like this sort of slap us in the face the with the way things change and yet stay exactly the same....

scorned lovers have been murdering one another meet-cleaver style for centuries...fortunately, it's not something that happens all that often, but still, it's always been this way...

the things that change are the ways and speed with which the "scorn" is communicated...