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Teen Cancels Party After 200,000 RSVP On Facebook

Posted by samzenpus on from the we're-going-to-need-a-bigger-hors-d'oeuvre-tray dept.

autospa writes "An Australian teen who had to shut down an event page on Facebook after more than 200,000 people RSVP'd for her sweet 16 party now has more than 70,000 people signed up to attend her new party. The girl named Jess called police Monday to say her Facebook account had been hijacked after thousands said they'd attend her birthday party in Chatswood March 26."

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  1. News For Nerds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What the fuck has happened to this site? Yet another inane story that happens on Facebook is "stuff that matters"???

    This place has really gone the tubes. It was once sort of cutting edge and look how far it has fallen.

    1. Re:News For Nerds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      You missed the point. The 'news for nerds' isn't the Facebook hijinks, it's the party at a 16 year-old girls house.

      C'mon, ya neckbeards! JB ahoy!

    2. Re:News For Nerds by MrEricSir · · Score: 4, Funny

      This place has really gone the tubes.

      Has it gone a series of tubes, perhaps?

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    3. Re:News For Nerds by sarysa · · Score: 5, Interesting

      As a nerd I think there's plenty of angles to this story...4chan's alleged "hijacking" of the event, the way the internet changes the dynamics of an open invitation event, but most importantly the way that the Aussie government is handling what most of us would consider a prank. It's also amusing to see how misinterpreted the notion of one's account h(ij)acked is by less seasoned users.

      Also, it's very, very funny.

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    4. Re:News For Nerds by MachDelta · · Score: 4, Funny

      16? Eh, that's really more of a 4chan thing.

      Now if it was a LAN party... well! This is the perfect place to come for ideas on setting up a 100,000 client network!

    5. Re:News For Nerds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      This is the perfect place to come for ideas on setting up a 100,000 client network!

      two words.....token ring

    6. Re:News For Nerds by vlueboy · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Aah, thought experiments: How deep would the router tree be? Let's raffle it so "every nth guest brings a 4 port router". For a base four tree we have about 8.30 levels of depth, so 4 ^8.30 approaches 100,000. (4 port routers, mean binary-like trees but with branches of four at each node)

      If using 16-port routers, the tree would be slightly over 4.15 levels . Those routers are expensive, but we'll save on cabling, admin time and power costs. This way we can get to the actual gameplay quickly... instead of troubleshooting what slightly drunk slashdotter inevitably misrouted a few of the runs at the last minute)

      I'm leaving to someone else the hard work of figuring out what is the number of routers to be purchased. I, um, forgot how to work that out. It goes without saying that in the real world the routers would need to be switches, and DHCP overheads, collisions, broadcasts, factoring in wireless routers, bridges and whether we'll allow them and their own interference/collisions ... and all that jazz would make this current topology prohibitive, but it's still fun to think about. After all, we always talk about infinite monkeys writing Shakespeare or valid OSs randomly. But SOMEONE has practice designing their LAN unless you'd rather "sneakernet" to each screen and find who's actually got the winning file!

      Oh, and... parent poster told me he's bringing all the cat 5 and power strips, even if it's just monkeys there ;)

    7. Re:News For Nerds by syousef · · Score: 3, Funny

      You missed the point. The 'news for nerds' isn't the Facebook hijinks, it's the party at a 16 year-old girls house.

      It's not the party at all. The news is there's a girl.

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    8. Re:News For Nerds by N1AK · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Calling the police was easily the smartest thing she did. 99.9% of Facebook events work perfectly well, it's the rare exceptions that some group of 'tards decide to crash. Given the number of people who said they were coming, even if she 'cancels' the event there's a good chance a lot of univited people are going to turn up at her door. Making the police aware in advance makes it easier for them to respond should anything happen, and ensures she isn't suspected of encouraging it if it does.

  2. Who's responsible... by Tigger's+Pet · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It says, in TFA, that "A 17-year-old boy was charged today for hijacking the invitation". I wonder what he has actually been charged with? Hijacking of an on-line invite seems a little over-exuberant by the Aussie police.

    1. Re:Who's responsible... by MooseMuffin · · Score: 3, Informative

      Good to see that after all the high profile stuff Anonymous has been linked to lately, they haven't forgotten to continue doing petty, immature stuff for the lulz.

    2. Re:Who's responsible... by Hecatonchires · · Score: 3, Informative

      He cloned the invite page and reupped it after she closed hers. Along with home address, phone etc.

      From The Australian Newspaper

      A police statement released to Associated Press today said a 17-year-old boy had been charged with using a telecommunications carrier to harass or offend someone.

      He is due in court in April.

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    3. Re:Who's responsible... by mjwx · · Score: 3, Informative

      "or offend"... wow.

      You see, unlike the US our judges are meant to be able to think for themselves and decide what is and isn't harassment.

      This law is targeting prank callers (which is what the youth in question did, albeit in a different way). Our judges simply dont do whatever the previous judge before them did (precedent based). They are expected to be able to understand a case and make judgements based on that situation instead.

      Secondly, it takes a lot more to offend an Aussie. We dont run screaming from the room when some middle aged washed up pop star accidentally shows a naked breast.

      There, do you think they'll try to extradite me?

      Also, unlike the US we realise and understand that our laws stop at our borders.

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  3. Doesn't anyone remember Kate's party? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    It was less than spectacular.

  4. Oblig. XKCD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    http://xkcd.com/242/

    I'm glad she can, indeed.

  5. SlashFACEBOOKdot, the new look by Nyder · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Do we really need news about facebook every day?

    I took a break from slashdot for a few years, came back a year ago, and seriously, this site is sucking even more now.

    facebook is anything but nerd like. It's way too fucking popular. it's programed in a style most of us would never do, and honestly, the site probably offends most of us.

    Unless the story is facebook crashes and burns and someone forgot to make backups, please spare us.

    Seriously, fuck facebook and it's stupid news stories that shouldn't be on this site.

    No, Fuck YOU SLASHDOT for being a lame fucking site these days.

    News for nerds? You even know what a fucking nerd is?

    Do you even know what NEWS is?

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  6. I know! by blair1q · · Score: 4, Funny

    Let's slashdot it!

  7. Some actual news stories about this by thehossman · · Score: 3, Informative

    If a random blogger is going to submission spam slashdot with all of his two paragraph blogs plagiarizing news articles, the least he could do is actually LINK to some genuinely useful coverage of the story on a reputable sites...

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  8. Re:Who cares? by Pharmboy · · Score: 4, Funny

    To be fair, you really should have a few years experience handling a weapon before you try to do it drunk.

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