Woman Incorrectly Fined For Facebook Post

By EZRecovery
in Real World News

 Share

Recommended Posts

Veteran

EZRecovery

Posted
Posted

Be careful what you write in FB!

 

Facebook is wonderful ? except of course when it?s not. For as huge of a communication tool as it is, sometimes it?s really hard to communicate on the social media giant. Oh, it?s terribly easy to write messages and comments to other users and post updates to your status, and all that, but to really communicate? That?s something else entirely. Facebook comments face the same problem our text messages face ? we can?t always read the right tone, and conversely, we can?t always interpret the message correctly. What says one thing to one person might say something completely different to someone else. Oh, the problems of communication ? and this is compounded by many levels on Facebook.

 

One woman is learning the hard way how important it is to phrase your comments correctly on Facebook (or anywhere online for that matter). She is a member of the Facebook group ?Whalon Lake Dog Park? out of Bolingbrook, Illinois, and was recently fined for a comment she made on the private group?s page. If you had no idea you could be fined for a comment, please join the club.

 

facebook-image.jpg

 

You Never Know Who?s Watching?

 

Here?s what her initial comment said, according to CNET:

 

?I was feeling bad that I haven?t bought a pass and been bringing Ginger there but I?m pretty glad I haven?t. So not going to worry about it until later. I hope all the doggies get better soon.? Doesn?t seem so bad, right?

 

It turns out an employee of the park district saw the woman?s post, showed it to a supervisor, who eventually made sure that the woman got sent a $50 citation for using the park without an updated permit. To make matters even worse, no one even checked to see if she?d even been to the park with her dog (which she hadn?t)!

 

Ultimately, she was able to convince them she hadn?t been to the private park for over a year, and they cancelled her fine, but let this be another warning to all Facebook users: be careful what you post online!

 

[image via mopays]

 

SOURCE: http://www.cnet.com/news/woman-gets-citation-for-innocent-facebook-comment/

This topic is now closed to further replies.
 Share
Go to topic listing

  • Posts

    • Valve finally confirms Steam Machine prices, starts at $1049 for 512GB option

      By sagum · Posted

      This machine could very well be a second gaming PC for their living room as a console experience. So we would have to assume their main PC exists as well; With that said, I have 10gb home network with a 2.5gigabit internet connection here so we tend to have more than enough speed to download games. However, we can't make use of the 10gb LAN using Steam's built in transfer tool because it always compresses transfers and that slows the transfer down to well below a standard gigabit port speeds, sometimes as slow as 200-300Mb/s transfers. While that's probably still faster than most internet connections anyway, if they'd fix the LAN transfer issue it'd be upto x5 faster even on a gigabit LAN, than simply dropping a 2.5gbe port on there with hopes of a few people having fast internet connections. There are solutions, work arounds, like using LANCache if you run a NAS... or simply copying the files over manually using a network share.
    • Samsung announces ultra-fast UFS 5.0 storage to supercharge mobile AI

      By zikalify · Posted

      Samsung announces ultra-fast UFS 5.0 storage to supercharge mobile AI by Paul Hill Local AI models tend to run a lot more slowly than cloud services like Claude and Gemini; however, Samsung has just announced that it has developed its UFS 5.0 solution, which increases data transfer to speeds of 10.8GB/s, enabling faster storage and processing in mobile memory that has the potential to provide more optimal local AI experiences. Commenting on this development, Jangseok Choi, head of Memory Product Planning at Samsung Electronics, said: If you’ve tried local AI, you’ll know it can be quite slow, especially if using the larger parameter models. By developing this new solution, Samsung says that storage is evolving from just storing data to a core piece of infrastructure that supports AI computation, too. The Korean company said that UFS 5.0 integrates the latest embedded memory interface standard from JEDEC and achieves up to 10.8 gigabytes per second (GB/s) transfer speeds. Regarding write speeds, Samsung UFS 5.0 can reach 9.5 GB/s. Both the read and write speeds are twice as fast as those of the previous UFS 4.1 standard. Aside from being ideal for local AI, Samsung’s UFS 5.0 is more power efficient by 40% compared to UFS 4.1. Samsung achieved this by implementing innovations such as clock gating and multi-voltage technologies. UFS 5.0 is also ultra-compact at just 7.5mm x 13mm x 0.9mm; that is 16.7% smaller than UFS 4.1. The company said it will be bringing it to multiple devices in the future, including mobile, wearable, and extended reality.
    • Valve finally confirms Steam Machine prices, starts at $1049 for 512GB option

      By sagum · Posted

      A bit like the steamdeck, this probably isn't for you.
    • Valve finally confirms Steam Machine prices, starts at $1049 for 512GB option

      By noobient · Posted

      Gamers Nexus already did their review, and building your own will be faster and cheaper, so not very convincing.
    • Valve finally confirms Steam Machine prices, starts at $1049 for 512GB option

      By Parallax Abstraction · Posted

      They've told outlets who got review units that it isn't. Partially because they believe that contributes to closed ecosystems. GamersNexus also believes this is because Valve's fighting a monopolistic practices lawsuit in Europe right now. They've also never subsidized any of their past hardware efforts and well, they definitely aren't subsidizing the Steam Deck right now.

  • Recent Achievements

    • Week One Done
      Almohandis earned a badge
      Week One Done
    • Rookie
      dorf went up a rank
      Rookie
    • First Post
      mike_rumble earned a badge
      First Post
    • Dedicated
      tuben earned a badge
      Dedicated
    • Week One Done
      mnsgroup earned a badge
      Week One Done

  • Popular Contributors

    1. 1
      +primortal
      496
    2. 2
      +Edouard
      209
    3. 3
      PsYcHoKiLLa
      99
    4. 4
      Michael Scrip
      86
    5. 5
      neufuse
      69
    Show More

  • Tell a friend

    Love Neowin? Tell a friend!