"Last month, according to a report, prosecutors said Gagnon's former girlfriend received an invitation to join one of his Google+ Circles. She'd recently broken up with Gagnon and had obtained a restraining order against him soon afterward. Upon discovering the unwelcome Google+ invite from her ex-beau online, she went down to the local police station with a print-out of the invitation. Roughly 90 minutes later, police arrested Gagnon for his Google+ activity and was later charged with violating the restraining order barring contact with her."
"The only wrinkle? Gagnon's attorney claims his client never sent the request, arguing that he "has no idea how the woman ... got such an invitation" and "suggesting that it might have been sent by a robot," The Salem News reports. It sounds like an almost comical mishap fit for a soap opera, but the interaction is a common one on Google+, where it's often unclear how or when users are actually on the service--and whether they actually count as "users" to begin with."
Did Thomas Gagnon violate the terms of a restraining order via computer or did Google's aggressive social network cast him into a circle of hell?
19 comments:
Yes, I need to find out how to opt out of google+. I don't even know how I got in.
Yahoo, google, youtube, they all seemed to turn to crap last year.
Whenever I take a picture with my phone it goes up on Google+.
I just hope they don't start taking pictures... I don't need the help. thanks.
Google has now crawled up inside, laid a bot-egg, and is watching your every move.
Googles aggressive social networking put him in jail which is a minor version of hell.
I hate the social media crap on the internet. I hate FB. I hate being told what friends of mine like a movie I am checking up on online. I hate that somehow what was once a plain google registration so I could comment on certain blogs now is attached to a gmail account I was forced to create in order to use some google feature for a business meeting. I hate my picture which I put on what was once a private account showing up in the most bizarre places because google youtube facebook et al is like an octopus or spider web catching any and all.
Funny, this morning scrambling an egg I was thinking how I simply do not like pieces of my life all over the internet which I had no active part in putting there.
I want access to information and contacts I want and sometimes need. I do not need what is being rammed down my throat by the internet trolls known as "social media."
NO. I do not "LIKE" your company on FB.
(Did you know that gives the business you liked access to your friends list so they can contact all your "friends.")
/rant
Did I mention I have an anti-social streak?
Can you use Chrome without creating a google account?
I get google+ invites as well as FB ones (yes, I have a FB account I think I have posted on very infrequently, before I figured it out --- last time maybe 3 years ago?)
Getting off of FB is like getting out of Obamacare.
Of course if you post the "right" things you can get deleted pretty quickly.
;-)
Where's the like button for April Apple @9:31?
I'm old, so I've been in and ended a few relationships. Usually, I'm the dumper, and I've almost always had respectful and cordial breakups, including a couple where I was the dumpee. I've never had one where either person acted like an ass with the stalking or calling the cops or anything like that. I don't get it. I know it hurts, and it can even be unfair, but the person doesn't want you anymore, and it never gets better once it gets there. Move on. Life is short, and love is too rare to waste any time clinging where it used to be, but has clearly left.
Move on. Life is short, and love is too rare to waste any time clinging where it used to be, but has clearly left.
I need my things back first.
PHX, your Klingon dictionary and tricorder thingy are in the front yard. Don't bother knocking. I won't answer.
It's not you, it's me.
This is what happens when you hurt the people you love.
One problem with breakups is that there are so many cliche lines. They just sound terrible because they are never original, but they are true. Most breakups are in fact" "me not you", "we've just grown apart", "I want you to be free to find someone better for you", etc, etc. Of course, the other true one is "I just want to start tagging some other hottie", but you never hear that one, so maybe nobody really wants to hear an original breakup line anyway.
But I fallen out of love with you now, so I'm really just hurting someone I don't really care about much. Was it good for you?
Hey, lets make a deal. I'll tell everyone that you were just amazing to be with, and I never felt like I deserved you, and you never did anything wrong. You do the same about me, and we will both come out of this much better.
If we all clean ourselves up and put a little smellum in our hair we'll feel a lot better about ourselves in the morning...and about life in general.
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