First, film actor/director Ricky Rivero (http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/14518/990am-actor-director-ricky-rivero-survives-stabbing-attack). Then call center human resources staff Maria Lisa Dominguez (http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/16310/call-center-employee-stabbed-dead-in-rented-home-facebook-boyfriend-sought).
Both Rivero and Dominguez went on a friend-shopping spree on Facebook. Which led to both of them getting stabbed more than 25 times. But, between them, Rivero is somehow luckier: he’s still alive and his assailant is now in detention. Dominguez was already dead when she was found and her lover got away.
Surely, there are life lessons to be learned here. But I smell tort. It’s a stretch, I know, but Facebook is out there, conveniently offering countless and endless possibilities for interaction and interconnection it’s almost futile to resist. In the process, some users get stabbed while Mark Zuckerberg gets richer by the minute. So now how to acquire jurisdiction over Zuck and dip our fingers into his still growing $6-billion net worth?
Hmm, consider incidents facilitated by Facebook a crime against humanity? Techies, after all, are already familiar with the concept of a crime with similar stature in international law – piracy. Now I’m not sure anymore where I’m going with this bad analogy.
Dear Elizabeth 