Harry Bruder, 54, probably didn't expect that a social networking site would become his downfall. He was arrested on Monday night after he breached his court protection order by sending a 'friend request' to his wife on Facebook.
According to an Orlando television station, the man admitted to contacting his wife twice via the social networking site, which has around 500 million members.
Detectives had determined that this contact with his wife was a violation of a domestic violence injunction filed by his wife. "Yeah, I did it", he said when asked by investigators. “Today my future x wife thinks she won but the real winner is me for i know the truth she is nothing but a lying emotionally disturbed woman who needs help to handle previous abusive relationship," he wrote on his 'wall'.
The crying star of this week's newest viral video has been placed under police protection after she received death threats. The video features the girl, who was the victim of internet trolling, and her family shouting while extremely upset.
The pain is no doubt intensified by the knowledge that by now, almost two million people have logged onto video-sharing site, YouTube, to view the rage. It was spawned by a prank pulled by internet prankster 4Chan, which spread the girl's various contact details across the internet in a viral fashion.
This isn't the only prank 4Chan has pulled in recent times. They also made headlines across the web when a petition was launched to send teen sensation Justin Bieber to North Korea.
Phone calls have been received widely within the household of the girl - who has been nicknamed Jessie Slaughter - including some that were centered around death threats toward her and her family.
Although nothing violent has yet eventuated as a result of such threats, it was enough for the police to place her under a protection initiative usually reserved for witnesses in a murder trial.
All of this talk, however, doesn't mean that the girl is innocent - despite being pranked at the tender age of twelve. All of the harassment seen here was sparked, according to other blogs, by a profanity ridden, hate-spewing video (embedded above) created by the girl attacking people whom she referred to as 'internet haters'.
Suggestions to 'suck my non-existant penis' and 'get AIDS and die' were among those hurled at the video's target audience. How classy?
"Fear can be good for business", reports the New York Times this morning in a story on how some parents are employing the use of subscription-based services that monitor their child's activity online.
In the dangerous wild west of the internet, there are a number of parents that are worried about the effect that some of its content may have on its children.
The article also details how the content filtering system of the service blocks out content based on certain keywords that are included in it - for example 'kill' or 'suicide'.
Of course, this can - and no doubt will - stop people from accessing perfectly innocent content. For example, when somebody doesn't see a post like 'the band killed last night'.
Imagine a day when children cannot lookup "To Kill a Mockingbird" without being red flagged by the China of their own homes. [Some content via NYT]
