Facebook Fight Leads to Youth Stabbing

What happens when an online spat leads to an offline encounter? In the case of two teenagers from Canada, some very scary behavior.

What happens when an online spat leads to an offline encounter? In the case of two teenagers from Canada, some very scary behavior.

In Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, two sixteen years girls were threatening each other on Facebook. Profanity filled messages were passed between inboxes. Some of the insults were probably written in all caps. Punctuation most likely wasn’t a major concern. Sounds pretty normal – if a little aggressive- for the contemporary social media active teenager, right? It might have been had the interaction remained online.

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