This is all done through the use of status updates, a feature on facebook which allows me to keep tabs on pretty much what all my 557 bffs on the book are up to. Now I know when they are hungry, procrastinating studying for a test, going out and getting wasted with their "loves" and the like. Personally I don't need a facebook tab to allow me to express my feelings. Far too often I come across ones that read something along the lines of: "trying to find the meaning of life" or "searching for real love." Like I said in one of my previous posts, facebook has many great tools for keeping in touch with friends, family and acquaintances, but sometimes people go to extremes. This became evident when a man was arrested, yes arrested for stealing a womans laptop to check his facebook account. I guess he couldn't go another second without knowing if someone wrote on his wall, tagged him in a picture or perhaps he simply needed to update his status. Here's more on the story from the Sarasota Herald Tribune:
BRADENTON, Fla. — Sheriff's officers said a 19-year-old man snatched a Starbucks customers laptop after being told he could not use it to check his Facebook account. According to officers, the man then grabbed the customer's laptop and ran out of the coffee shop, located in an outlet mall.
Two people in the parking lot tackled the man and held him there until a mall security guard arrived.
The victim got his laptop back and the man was charged Saturday with robbery by sudden snatching, a felony.
information from Sarasota Herald Tribune
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