A Mother of a 13-year-old daughter got the shock of her life when she opened her daughter’s bedroom closet late Sunday night. She found a 19-year-old man, whom her daughter met on Facebook, was hidden by her daughter in the closet.
Detroit police spokesman John Roach said Monday night that Donal Hunter of Detroit is in the Wayne County Jail and that the Wayne County prosecutor’s office approved seeking a warrant to charge Hunter with two felony counts of criminal sexual conduct, punishable by up to 15 years in prison.
The girl told police they had sex in the bedroom of her east-side home, where she hid him Saturday night and Sunday until her mother found him and detained him until cops arrived, police said.
This case has those who deal with teens again waving warning flags about children using sites like Facebook and MySpace.
“This case illustrates that we must be diligent about monitoring what our children are doing on the web,” Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said Monday. [Source: freepress]
This news left me guessing for some time whom to put the blame on; the ignorant mother, the wayward child or the irresponsible young man. It also left me wondering how the child could hid the man for two days, how the mother couldn’t know about it sooner or why the man so willingly stayed in the closet? But the bottom line dear readers is, please beware of what you do online and if you have young teens, be sure that you monitor their online activities always and stay safe and keep the skeletons from coming out of the closet.
Instant Messaging or in other words IM has been there on the Internet for many years and we are familiar with many chat programs available as standalone applications and web applets. Embedding chat functionality in to a web page is no alien to the world of Internet. When Facebook introduced chat feature for the first time, it received a massive response from the Facebook users as Facebook introduced the chat function as a simple, yet effective service.
When you are online in Facebook, you will notice that chat application is running on the Facebook taskbar at the right bottom of the page. Whenever your friends come to Facebook and available for chat, the number which indicates the number of online friends increases. Then you can simply open the chat application and start chatting with your friends.
Facebook chat works similar to any other chat program with more or less the same features such as emoticons etc. Although many features of Facebook chat functions are similar to other chat programs, there are significant differences in the implementation of the program. As an example, while many other chat accounts can be integrated in to a desktop chat client such as Pidgin, Facebook does not allow to access Facebook chat through a third party chat client.
You can control all related parameters for Facebook chat by simply clicking ‘Settings’ in the main chat window. If frequent messages from your friends grab a lot of attention from you, you can go offline, so they cannot see you or message you while you are busy.
There’s now a way to integrate facebook chat with the firefox web browser. After the integration, facebook chat will be located on your left side bar, making it easier to use and navigate.
If you press ‘Ctrl’ first keep it help and then press the ‘B’ key on your keyboard, you will see the sidebar pop in on the left side, so you have an idea of where the chat bar will go.
Step 1
Click Bookmarks at the top to the right of file.
Step 2
Click New Bookmark tab then enter the infromation:
Name: Facebook Chat Bar
Location: http://www.facebook.com/presence/popout.php
Make sure you tick Load this bookmark in sidebar.
Step 3
Login to Facebook then click view to the right of file then select sidebar select ‘Facebook
Chat Bar’ and start chatting with your Facebook contacts within Firefox.
