Facebooked for Three to Five

Dear people who want to do illegal things publicly - maybe you should rethink your plan. Like openly talking about killing the President on a social network site? … That’s pretty much a bad idea.

In a creepier-than-usual case of social networking gone awry, a user-created poll on Facebook was recently discovered posing the question “Should Obama be killed?” Blog Political Carnival discovered the poll and alerted the Secret Service to its existence; Facebook has since removed the poll as well as the application that enabled its creation. Political Carnival took a screenshot of the poll before it went down. It featured four answers to the question: Yes, No, Maybe, and “Yes if he cuts my health care.” The Secret Service has said that it is investigating the issue with the help of Facebook. “We take these things seriously,” said a spokesman for the Secret Service. (The Washington Post)

On that note, you should become my friend on Facebook. I promise, I say no to the assassination of world leaders and yes to pictures of me recreating 1970’s superhero shows. Can’t beat that.