The curse of social media – cold blooded murders committed

The gruesome murder of a couple of girls has raised questions of how safe is interaction with people on the social media, especially on sites like Facebook.
Social media on the internet is a medium where one can suppress his true identity and create an impression about oneself that is far from the truth. After all no one will verify the truth about whether a smart looking young man’s real name is Ram or Shyam and whether he really is an engineering graduate from a well-known institution like IIT or whether he is an NRI.
The fact is that whatever he posts on his profile is taken at face value – literally.

The truth is revealed only when a crime is committed and the crime can be a case of financial duping or, coldblooded murder.
That is what two recent cases are about – cold blooded murder. Both are girls who had made friends with boys via Facebook.
One of these girls was killed in July and her body was concealed in a concrete packing covered with a marble slab. The boy who has reportedly committed the crime has admitted to the police that he had also murdered both his parents – even before he murdered this girl!
The other was of another girl who was lured away from her home and her nude body was discovered in another remote location – the suspect here is also a boy who was her friend on Facebook.
In this text it is relevant to note that interaction on the social media has led to happily married couples who appear on the many game shows and reality shows. The question that is normally asked is – was your marriage an arranged one? And the girl gives a broad smile and replies ‘no, we eloped and married in a temple’ or ‘we met on a social networking site’ etc.
Such girls are undoubtedly the lucky ones.


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