Facebook as judge, jury and executioner
This week's stock market crash has been levied on a rogue trader in France. An article in today's metro explained the potential cause of the worldwide slump, and then chose to round up the article with a truly damning inditement of the trader. Not content with explaining how his actions had left Societe Generale with a loss of 4bn euros, the Metro really stuck in the knife by explaining before the scandal dropped, Jerome Kerviel had 11 friends on facebook - but today, after media reports that he was the as yet unnamed trader, he has only four.
Well, he must be guilty then. I'm glad Metro felt it neccessary to point this out. My interest in the story was only passing until they linked it to his facebook popularity. This really is an important piece of news now. I haven't been too fussed by Mugabe's dictatorship, but I just found he hasn't updated his twitter status for over 24 hours, and that really pissed me off. What an evil man.
I must really try and not update my Facebook status the next time I rob a bank, it might come back to haunt me. "Matthew is holding up a branch of Northern Rock. Haven't managed to fill my bag of loot though."
Well, he must be guilty then. I'm glad Metro felt it neccessary to point this out. My interest in the story was only passing until they linked it to his facebook popularity. This really is an important piece of news now. I haven't been too fussed by Mugabe's dictatorship, but I just found he hasn't updated his twitter status for over 24 hours, and that really pissed me off. What an evil man.
I must really try and not update my Facebook status the next time I rob a bank, it might come back to haunt me. "Matthew is holding up a branch of Northern Rock. Haven't managed to fill my bag of loot though."
