When A Virtual Facebook Poke Equals The Real Thing

Posted in Life ::: October 21, 2009 2:20 PM

We keep seeing social networking and virtual on-line relationships cross over into hard reality and here is yet another example.  A Tennessee woman is charged with vioating an order of protection by reaching out and "poking" another woman on Facebook.    The story is here:  http://www.abajournal.com/news/did_court_order_ban_facebook_poke

It makes sense to me personally.  A "stay away" order is just that - it means you have to completely refrain from contacting that person whether it be in person or via cell phone or tweet or Facebook poke.  Once you start saying some things count and others don't, it turns into an administrative nightmare.  It will be interesting to see the outcome of this case. 

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