Teenage Girls Face Felonies For Facebook Impostering

Facebooking can be a felony.

That’s the hard lesson learned by a couple of teenage girls after they created a fake profile, impersonating one of their schoolmates.

According to Newser.com, the two Texas middle-schoolers, aged 12 and 13, have been arrested for allegedly creating a Facebook page pretending to be a classmate. They used that fake account to threaten other kids at school. What was said in those messages is not public knowledge as this is a juvenile case.

The messages caused "the victim to endure threats from other students" and suffer social rejection, a sheriff's statement says; the victim's mother says the incident nearly prompted a "physical altercation."

The police said what the girls did was very similar to identity theft and the girls now face third-degree felony charges for online impersonation.

I think a lot of people in the world need to realize that if they wouldn't say something to someone’s face, they probably shouldn't post it to Facebook.

[Newser.com]

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