Your Facebook Friends Aren't Real
According to an article in the Sydney Morning Herald, a British judge has “made official what many of us have long suspected – that being ‘Facebook friends’ with someone doesn’t necessarily make you their friend.” Apparently a woman accused her ex-boyfriend of harassing her by sending her a friend request on Facebook. I’m not quite sure how that qualifies as harassment. Apparently the judge agreed.
The boyfriend’s argument was that “the contact was highly innocuous because being ‘Facebook friends’ could not be defined as ‘friendship in the traditional sense'”.
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