False advertising. Just a week ago, in Wellington, Joshua Simon Ashby, 20, was jailed for, among other vengeful behaviours, posting a naked picture of his ex-girlfriend on her Facebook. The conviction coincided with the New Zealand opening of the movie The Social Network, in which Facebook inventor Zuckerberg, played by Jesse Eisenberg, is dumped by his girlfriend and writes nasty words about her on his blog for all to see.
Life imitates art based on real life - or what passes for it in cyberspace. Joshua Simon Ashby got four months. Actually, the real Zuckerberg didn't break up at all - he's been dating the same girl since But since when has Hollywood ever let facts get in the way of a good screenplay? The geeky founder of Facebook does admit he knows what it's like to be dumped by girls. It's also true that in the pre-Facebook era, in his sophomore year at Harvard, he created a vicious website called Facemash, which subjected female students to male ridicule.
To do so, he hacked into the protected areas of Harvard's computer network and copied the private ID images from nine students' houses. For something known as a "social" network, there can be a lot of anti-social activity going on. Good idea or not, Zuckerberg ploughs on with algorithms to rate girls as hot - or not. In the movie his technical prowess is seen as all the more impressive because not only has he hacked into Harvard's systems in a couple of hours and set up a website in one night, he's done it while drunk.
Alcohol was involved in Ashby's case too. Judge Andrew Becroft said Ashby acted in an "irresponsible drunken jealous rage", according to a Dominion Post report on the Wellington case. Emotions which led him to use Facebook to humiliate his ex-girlfriend. His parents, in court to support their son, hope the jail term will deter others from the "dark side" of Facebook.
The dark side - whether Facebook, the internet, human nature or a toxic mixture of all three - is something Netsafe development manager Sean Lyons deals with all the time.
About three years ago the cybersafety organisation noticed a distinct shift. The calls it was getting changed from being mainly about children's safety online to issues concerning adults. Or set up a false profile using the person's name because they didn't have a Facebook.
Netsafe gets about six calls a week that can be broadly classified as ex-relationship harassment via the net - hardly an epidemic, but enough to be a concern. Lyons agrees the damage done by such behaviour can be extremely harmful, but says Facebook isn't inherently at fault. As an expat Scotsman, he's been using Facebook for about three years and, like many, finds it a great way to keep in touch with people on the other side of the world. He pleaded guilty to a charge of distributing indecent matter, but also threatening to kill, wilful damage, theft of the woman's clothes, and assault.
Text messages sent to his ex-girlfriend included: "I'm going to kill you" and "dead bitch". At the same time as the Facebook incident, Ashby stole two of her dresses, soaked them in water and cut them up.
Erica: It didn't stop you from writing it The internet is not written in pencil, Mark, it's written in ink and you published that Erica Albright was a bitch. Mark Zuckerberg and longtime med student girlfriend Priscilla Chan got major status updates today as the pair celebrated Zuck's becoming a bajillionaire and crashing the Nasdaq with a small, person wedding in the backyard of his home in Palo Alto.
And look, he even put on a tie! She graduated, coincidentally, on Zuckerberg's birthday on Monday. Who on Earth would sign off a Facebook post or article like this??? His name is clearly visible at the top of his Facebook posts. And his name would be posted right under the title of every article he wrote that is published in the media. He has always complimented her in other ways :.
Even in this Annie Leibovitz picture of both of them , he commented on her expression, not her looks. Priscilla Chan graduated from Harvard University, but she did not study medicine there.
She graduated from Harvard with a Bachelor of Arts in Biology. If you like our work, you can help support our work by visiting our sponsors , participating in the Tech ARP Forums , or even donating to our fund. Any help you can render is greatly appreciated! Spread the love. Then from them came another question, what do I like about priscilla chan, my wife? I like the simplicity.
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