Monday, January 7, 2013

'Facebook dead prank,' the meanest online prank you can play

The Ultimate Facebook Prank: How to "Kill" Your Friends on Facebook by Faking. Apparently, this happens often enough that Facebook has a dedicated form for it. Now, not only is doing this annoying for your not-dead friend,Channel 4 News is being investigated by media regulator Ofcom over the broadcast of the Duchess of Cambridge prank royal phone call featuring nurse Jacintha Saldanha hours after she had been found dead. The news bulletin replayed the opening exchangesSome listeners applauded the prank, like one who identified himself as Guido on the station's Facebook page and wrote, "It is only a joke people! it was great i love it!!!" Others were outraged, with such negative comments outnumbering positive ones on1 Officers shot: Three New York City police officers were recovering Friday, hours after being shot in separate incidents that left one suspect dead and four under arrest. The shootings occurred in a one-hour span Thursday night. Off-duty policeBut the Facebook prank does illustrate yet again how the social and legal rituals that accompany death in the real world can carry over poorly to the digital realm. Other examples include the impermanence of photos as well as licensing rules that mean
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