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Sending Love Notes Via MySpace Not Considered Harassment
from the not-that-it-should-give-you-any-ideas dept
Teenagers fall in love quite easily... and when they do, they often do silly things like repeatedly telling the object of their affection how they feel, even if that love is unrequited. These days, with teens living on social networks like MySpace and Facebook, it should come as no surprise that many are using such social networks to express that love. Apparently, one young woman felt that an infatuated teen's MySpace repeated messages constituted harassment. However, in a rather eloquent decision, a NY court has disagreed, pointing out the awkward and obsessive nature of teenaged love, combined with the more practical fact that MySpace users can block messages (which this girl never did) and that she never bothered to tell the guy to stop sending such messages. Combine this with the recent ruling that sending a Facebook friend request to an ex- is not harassment, and you start to realize that the courts are going to be quite busy over the next few years trying to port offline laws into the online world of social networks.
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Better idea, hang them all, or lashings 'til death sounds pretty good, also.
I love you all, hehehe!!!
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In response to the article, that is funny. Especially since she didn't tell him to stop or to block the messages.
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Hmm...
Now if she had done all that and he went out of his way to still make contact with her, then she would have a case.
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It's funny that it was the state prosecutors that were charging the guy and not private attorneys. Now if he said something like, "I watch you while you sleep" or "I'll kill anyone that tries to take you away from me", I could see where they'd have a case lol.
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