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The Facebook murder

The Facebook murderAdd to the "email murder," "death by text message," and "MySpace suicide" this technology-enabled homicide: Wayne Forrester, a 34-year-old British man has confessed that while drunk and high on cocaine, he stabbed his wife Emma to death over an update she made to her Facebook profile. She had changed her status on the social network to "single" after her husband moved out. A new way to announce a breakup, but the oldest of stories. Technology does not change human nature; if anything, it amplifies it.
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