Tag: Facebook

Saudi man catches daughter on Facebook, Murders Her

Tags: Facebook + Saudi Arabia + Sheikh Ali al-Maliki

Rasti
Posted by Rasti 3 months 20 days ago; via valleywag.com/375515/saud...

A man from Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, beat and then fatally shot his daughter after catching her using Facebook to conduct a conversation with a man, according to reports. More than 30,000 Saudi Arabians use Facebook, but religious figures such as Saudi preacher Sheikh Ali al-Maliki condemn the site as a hotbed of lustful activity. "Facebook is a door to lust and young women and men are spending more on their mobile phones and the Internet than they are spending on food," al-Maliki said in a recent TV interview. Thank goodness we...

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Politicians Try Out MySpace

Tags: MySpace + Facebook + Vote

david
Posted by david 1 year 9 months ago; via online.wsj.com/public/art...

Politicians across the country are discovering that a presence on social-networking sites such as MySpace isn't just a way of communicating with voters under 30, it is also a means of attracting volunteers and their donations. Howard Dean's 2004 presidential primary run underscored the Internet's untapped potential as a fund-raising tool, and political strategists say these networking sites go further by helping candidates to home in on specific audiences, beyond those who click on campaign Web sites.

Politicians with profiles that get the...

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