Love on Facebook Steals a Laptop: A True Story

Don’t be scared!! Keep your cool as you might be one of the 600 million active users of Facebook. Surely I am one of them. I love this social networking site because:

• It builds my social relationship
• It approves my web presence
• It allows me to interact with my friends freely
• It facilitates to promote my blog
• And the list expands virtually up to infinity…

It’s the most popular networking site till date and will remain for another decade or more without any threat. The reason is, it has got a dedicated workforce, an expert think-tank, and gives genuine customer-services.

 But sometimes Facebook also has to face bad comments and criticism not because of its faults. Rather many of the mal-functioning activities and misuses by its users create unwanted burdens. Such an incident happened on 24^th September in the capital of Odisha, India will shiver the world. The real story of two young citizens and their Facebook activities costing one his laptop was published in Sambad, a local daily newspaper. Read the full story.

     “Bhubaneswar, 24/9: They became friends on Facebook. Continued to chat daily for hours, spent lots of time in online communication and finally loved each other. After some more days they passed their mobile phone numbers and talked to each other. One day they planned to meet and chose a private guesthouse in Chandrasekharpur region as the spot.

      As they say Rahul (the boy) is a B. Tech. Student of a private engineering college in Bhubaneswar. Reena (the girl) too is an engineering student of a private college near Dhenkanal, about 75 KMs away from Bhubaneswar.

      At about 10 am they arrived at the guesthouse. Talked for a few minutes in the booked room and Rahul went to a nearby shop for getting some snacks. After returning the room Rahul did not find the girl. Checked his laptop, but it was missing.

The helpless boy enquired the case at the reception but got no sign of relief. Tried to contact Reena but got no response as the cell phone was switched off. From a nearby cyber cafe he then sent an email to Reena’s email account and tried hard to contact her college. The result was the fruitless.

He finally got to know that Reena’s Facebook id was just a fake. She is not a student of that college at all. Now he is searching for that girl with the help of some friends.”

Friends, don’t you think that this news coverage has powerful messages for all of us? Yes, it has. Let’s get across a few.

• Don’t make close friendship with unknown people.
• Don’t be addicted to online chatting. It will save your valuable time.
• If someone is asking your phone number, make sure that you know him/her very well.
• Don’t involve in verbal communication via phone led from just Facebook chatting.
• Be watchful for any unknown links that are shared to your timeline.
• Moreover, control your senses while viewing other’s profiles. Don’t get trapped by the beautiful profile pics.
• Don’t interact with Ads. if you don’t know them.
• For details on privacy and security of your Facebook account please visit www.facebook.com/help/privacy.