Son Sues Mother Over Facebook Posts

Most kids hate having their parents join in on a discussion on Facebook, but one 16-year-old in Arkansas hates it so much he has filed suit against his mother, charging her with harassment. From the article: "An Arkadelphia mother is charged with harassment for making entries on her son's Facebook page. Denise New's 16-year-old son filed charges against her last month and requested a no-contact order after he claims she posted slanderous entries about him on the social networking site. New says she was just trying to monitor what he was posting." Seems like he could just unfriend her.

Comments

No contact.

[pclminion]

A no contact order against your mom? How exactly is that supposed to work?

Either the kid's worthless, or the mom is, or both. In any case, who gives a crap about this trash?

The real story, for me...

[wjc_25]

...is the wording of Arkansas's "harassment" offense law: "A person commits the offense if with purpose to harass, annoy or alarm another person without good cause, he engages in conduct or repeatedly commits acts that alarm or seriously annoy another person." (from the article)

It's unnerving to think that it's possible to take legal action against someone for such a vaguely defined offense. Think back to your childhood--or high school even, or college: how often did you "annoy or alarm another person without good cause"? Cripes sake, who hasn't? Suddenly this enormous, near-universal category of human interaction, namely anything that annoys or frightens one person "for no good reason," is legally actionable. Terrifying.

Re:The real question

[Anarki2004]

have you ever visited the south?

Re:16 years old, no legal rights against parents.

[Antiocheian]

Punctuation ?

Re:NOOOOO, my delicate preconceived notions!

[BitZtream]

Moral of the story: RTFA.

No.

The instant facebook is mentioned you simply assume its retarded. Its a big graffiti wall that people post crap to, then get pissed off because someone they didn't want saw it or someone said something mean about them.

Any news story relating to facebook that doesn't involve its last servers being turned off or some sort of airplane flying into all of their datacenters at one time is worthless and should be written off as something 'another one of those facebook/twitter/attentionwhores is being an idiot again'.

Thats where it should end. I don't really care what happened here, everyone involved is an idiot, possibly including the reporter who reported it. I can safely make that assumption without reading the story because its true for every story about facebook/twitter. Prove me wrong if you think you can, but I'm not going to sit around and wait for something to happen you can use as a reference.