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The 6 worst social networking disasters
These cases happened to real people when they were using a social networking service.
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1. You get killed by some sicko you met online

It sounds too crazy to be true but it happened.

Meet the wrong person and agree to meet and the next thing you know, you might wind up dead in a  ditch.

That was what happened to this UK girl in 2009:

Girl killed by sex predator she met on Facebook

When 17-year-old Ashleigh Hall told her mother she was going to a friend's house to stay over for the night, she did not know that the person she was meeting is a known sex predator.

Hours later, the teenage girl was dead and her body thrown into a ditch near Sedgefield, a county in northeast England.

According to the English newspaper the Daily Mail, a 32-year-old man later told police that he was responsible for the killing.

He also said that he had posed as a 16-year-old boy on the social networking site Facebook and struck up a friendship with Ashleigh.

Read the full story here

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