Another Facebook->death story has been spotted by Snopes. The conceit is that a father writes a vile (if undescribed) message on his daughter's Facebook page, probably on her wall. In reply, perhaps because of the lack of a "dislike" button, she kills herself.
The lure was a purported devastating message a father had left on his daughter's Facebook wall which prompted her to commit suicide. Sometimes the story was fleshed out with claims that the girl had taken her life on Christmas Eve, or that she'd just returned from basketball tryouts when she read the horrifying missive. It was typically accompanied by a photograph of a rather fetching girl in a pink top looking back over her shoulder and smiling, or a headshot of some other pretty girl.
So far, so classic fearsome internet: family relations soured or revealed to be monstrous; death; technology of choice.
But Snopes goes on to point out more awfulness: the story was used as a scam to coax people out of their login info.
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