My only comment on this is that Parents and Teens need to be REALLY careful with social networking. I know it's been said a million times, but there is obviously a need to reiterate that the internet contains millions of Evil Hamsters, Stalkers, Perverts, Thieves, etc., who are not afraid to cross the line and hurt you!
Please stay safe and don't trust anyone on the other side of your computer screen......even your friends can have their accounts hacked!!!
With all of the Facebook scams that take place on a daily basis, it’s hard to tell when someone is actually telling the truth. Often cryptic status updates are ignored and chalked up to teenage mood swings or a silly cry for attention, but sometimes something more serious is going on.
On Saturday a teenage girl was found dead just 3 days after she told her friends on Facebook that she had a stalker. The body of 17-year-old Emily Longley was uncovered in Bournemouth, Dorset on Saturday morning. She had worked at Topshop, the trendy U.K. retailers, and lived with a relative in Bournemouth, England.
The aspiring model posted “I have a stalker!!!” to her Facebook account last Wednesday, later adding “Someone just called me and I was like ‘Who’s this?’” She continued to post about the stalker saying “And they were like ‘You don’t know me but I know everything about you’ and I was like ‘How did you get my number?’ and he was like ‘I’ll tell you when I see you’ and kept asking me out.” She then added, “So I hung up and they won’t stop calling” and “I’m really scared! Ha. It’s a private number as well. Some people need to get a life!”
Her last post was on May 5th where she claimed to be “Down and out.” Her body was discovered in a bungalow in Queenswood Avenue 2 days later.
According to a spokesperson for Dorset Police, two men from Bournemouth ages 17 and 19 were arrested on Saturday but released on bail. The cause of death is undetermined but Longley’s father reports that she died in her sleep.
Obviously Longley’s death is a huge shock to her parents who plan to travel to England to find out what happened to their daughter. Friends of the aspiring model have set up a Facebook group in commemoration called “R.I.P Emily Longley” and already hundreds of people have left comments.
The death is still under investigation, and Detective Inspector Neil Devoto has encouraged anyone who has witnessed any strange activity in the area occurring on Friday night or Saturday morning or has any information about the incident to contact the police.
A story like this brings me near tears. No one stepped in or contacted the police about the stalker and now a young girl is dead. Her entire News Feed saw those messages, did anyone worry? On Friday we reported on a teen that posted a threat he received to his Facebook account and was killed 2 days later. Hopefully these kinds of cases will convince people to take what is posted on Facebook more seriously because sometimes lives are at stake.
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