Fix This Facebook Setting as Fast as You Can

Woman Allegedly Mows Down Cousin After Man Refuses Her Facebook Friend Request

Amelia McDonell-Parry
12:40PM, 01/26/2011 Comments (15)

NY Post

Today in “bitches be crazy!” news: Melanie Snanopoulos, of Long Island, allegedly mowed down her cousin, Giselle Penagos, 21, twice with her van after fighting about a guy. On Sunday, Snanopoulos and Penagos got in a heated fight while driving after Snanopoulos discovered that a man she was interested in had accepted Penagos’ Facebook friend request, but ignored her own. After Snanopoulos pulled over, Penagos jumped out of the van and Snanopoulos followed her. The two fought on the street and then Snanopoulos allegedly hopped back in the van and drove straight into Penagos. She then supposedly reversed and plowed into Penagos for a second time. Over a dude ignoring a friend request? Maybe he just hadn’t gotten around to accepting it yet! Yeesh.
Snanopoulos told her cousin to get back in the van, but Penagos said she was unable to feel her legs. Snanopoulos drove off and a good Samaritan took Penagos to a hospital in Queens, where it was determined that she suffered from a broken leg and a shattered pelvis. Doctors say she’s lucky that she wasn’t run over by another car and that she was found quickly—temperatures were only in the single digits that night and she could have froze to death. Snanopoulos, who claims she’s innocent, was charged with assault and released on $10,000 bond, an amount which caused Snanpoulos to smile and utter, “That sucks.” Yeah, like I said, bitches be crazy. [NY Post]

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Fix This Facebook Setting as Fast as You Can

Gawker: HTTPS encryption can keep you from getting hacked

By John Johnson,  Newser Staff

Posted Jan 26, 2011 6:34 PM CST

(Newser) – Facebook has begun rolling out an important new protection, and Gawker's Ryan Tate says users should "jump on this" as soon they can. It's an encryption tool called Facebook HTTPS that will "keep any random jerk in the café from hijacking your account." Unfortunately, users have to opt-in to the service, at least for now, and Tate offers a walk-through of how to do it under Account Settings. (Facebook does, too, in its blog post.)

You may not be able to make the switch immediately, but keep checking back. "Switching to HTTPS is important because a browser extension called Firesheep has made it especially easy for anyone sharing your open wireless network—at cafe or conference, for example—to sniff your credentials and freely access your account," writes Tate. Also note that this protection doesn't apply to the Facebook iPhone app.

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