200K People Confirm Party Invitation Via Facebook Prank

[jebussaves88]

All this article serves to do is bring more attention to some horrible people who really don't deserve any attention. Sure, they may do some things that some of us admire in a Robin Hood kind of way, but when it comes down to it, I really don't care for this group. Ok, so it may be a mixed bunch, but I remain highly sceptical, and wish the media would stop giving them the attention that fuels them.

 

[Retosa]

Okay, seriously, Anonymous isn't a hacktivist group.

There are members of Anonymous who are involved in hacktivist activities.

There are also members of Anonymous who are complete dickholes.

Next, there was no hacking of Facebook. Someone got an invite. Girl allowed people she invited to invite other people.

Girl invited someone who decided to start inviting a shitton of other people, and it went viral because someone probably posted about it on /b/ and /soc/. Considering how butthurt the girl got, and how police got involved, I'm sure many lulz were had. And considering it happened again, I'm sure even more lulz were had.

This is her fault for being stupid and not taking advantage of Facebook's privacy settings. If you can't take a joke, get off the internet. Srs bsns indeed.

Also, I suck for breaking rules 1 and 2, but whatever.

 

[JonnWood]

Oh come on, Daily Telegraph. The Anonymous logo is easy to find (first result when I google image search "Anonymous.") I'm sure they have better things to do than terrorize some fifteen-year old gi-

...oh god

Fifteen is a bit too old for 'em. [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/jessi-slaughter]

 

[lacktheknack]

So a bunch of people jokingly hitting "confirm" on a party invitation probably thousands of miles away from where they actually live is grounds for having the police watching your house to keep you safe and suing some kid for sending out an open invitation? The internet is serious business, guys.

Because the girl was stupid and listed her address. Now 200K people know where she lives and statistically how many of those do you think are pedophiles within driving distance?

Oh come now. How many pedophiles happen to see little girls playing in front of their homes? Tons. It doesn't mean that they're going to stalk that house automatically. If anything, they're going to avoid a high-profile address.

We had a thread about this on our WoW guild forums, was no where as good as Cory Worthingtons party. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_m-G2fCCY0]
Mostly because it really happened, and the fact he looks like a massive tool.

The only thing that could've made that party more fun was if it wasn't BYOB.

...Your avatar made me read that as "Bring Your Own Bombs".

Now THAT would be an epic party.

 

[Tom Phoenix]

And people wonder why i dont use Facebook.

Quite. Frankly, it is a much better idea to organise such events via personal contact or e-mail correspondence.

 

[WorldCritic]

I'm pretty sure Anonymous has better things to do than play a prank on a fifteen year old girl. Unless maybe one of the members thought it would be funny, it just seems to me that the police are a little too quick to blame them.

You don't see a lot of Anonymous do you?

Anonymous isn't some noble 'fight for freedom of speech' organisation; this is in fact the sort of thing they spend most of their time doing, terrosising people who have the sheer gall to not know how to use the internet as well as they do.

Personally I'm not so quick to label this Anonymous without further proof, but it absolutely seems to me the sort of thing they'd find funny, especially since it gives them the added bonus of being able to find a 15 year old girl's house and terrorise her in real life with death threats and other hilarious entertainment.

Man, those guys crack me up.

I never said they were noble or fought for free speech. I don't have a high opinion of them in general, but this just seems kind of beneath them compared to other stuff they've done.

 

[bpm195]

I can see the defense for the that got arrested.

"I asked her how many people I could bring, and she said the more the merrier"

 

[mjc0961]

Jebas people, what happened to the days of playing a prank on someone where the victim feels dumb but can brush it off after an hour with a good laugh? This is just plain malicious

Agreed. This reminds me of a "prank" I saw where some guy was sexual harassing a girl in a Halo match. No asswipe, that is not a prank. You are just a massive asshole.

Anyway, this is just another reason why I would rather do things with phones or face-to-face meetings rather than facebook.

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

Does anyone else think that "Being a dick" should me made a prosecutable offense?

The defendant has to stand in front of a judge and jury, the punishment fitted to the level of dick-ishness displayed. An offenec like this would get community service, it's a pretty dickish thing to do, but wasn't overtly malicious or violent like say, getting drunk and punching someone would be.

Feel sorry for 'Jess' though, that would have been an amazing party.

I agree. Why try to ruin a 15-year-old's birthday? What do you gain from that?

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

So a bunch of people jokingly hitting "confirm" on a party invitation probably thousands of miles away from where they actually live is grounds for having the police watching your house to keep you safe and suing some kid for sending out an open invitation? The internet is serious business, guys.

Because the girl was stupid and listed her address. Now 200K people know where she lives and statistically how many of those do you think are pedophiles within driving distance?

That point isn't really relevant, pedophile=/=child molester. Honestly, I don't see why so many people think that.

 

[Danpascooch]

Jebas people, what happened to the days of playing a prank on someone where the victim feels dumb but can brush it off after an hour with a good laugh? This is just plain malicious

I seriously don't get why anyone thinks this was a mean prank, as far as pranks go, one where nobody is physically harmed, there is no property damage, and no powerful verbal abuse, isn't this the best one can hope for in a prank? Instead everyone freaks and a kid is arrested without doing anything illegal.

Is there something I'm missing?

 

[zen5887]

This has happened like... 6 times before.

I really don't think we need to bring anonymous or "hacking" into it..

 

[FateOrFatality]

My sister is friends with this girl actually, and apparently it was her own laziness that got her in trouble. She wanted to invite everyone in her grade, but didn't want to have to invite them all herself, so she left it on public.

Stupid, stupid move...

 

[dajuberjaber]

its funny when you know her

 

[samfergo]

its funny cause none of the press had the amount of people that said they were attending at their peak, on my way to school yesterday it was 800,000 people attending. Not one press site has mentioned this fact.

 

[Phishfood]

Ah facebook, once again you prove yourself quite unfit for purpose.

Of course, I can see why privacy settings and facebook don't go well together. Its a "social network" to share your details. Hiding them defies the point.

Being honest, I detest facebook. I have no idea why I keep using it. Streams of updates along the lines of "I'm going to the shops now" "I'm tired now" "I'm an attention whore and haven't recieved enough attention now" Even when its people I know very well in person I don't give a ****.

 

[WolfThomas]

What'a more annoying would be the 15,000 maybes. I hated when they turn up and you haven't catered enough for them.

 

[fgdfgdgd]

I love how Anonymous is blamed for things like this, because you have to be a deprived scum bag to take the piss out of someone for being stupid on the internet, they underestimate the aussie way of life, taking the piss out of people is a way of life here. And she's learned a valuable lesson about internet privacy. Problem?

[small]I...may have been on the guest list.[/small]

 

[Optimystic]

Oh come on, Daily Telegraph. The Anonymous logo is easy to find (first result when I google image search "Anonymous.") I'm sure they have better things to do than terrorize some fifteen-year old gi-

...oh god

Yes well I remember Jessie Slaughter too.

http://youtube.wikia.com/wiki/Jessie_Slaughter

http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Jessie_Slaughter

I do agree with a lot of what Anonymous does, however I'm reluctant to consider them good guys or buy into the entire "hacktivist" thing that they seem branded with, since their bottom line is lulz. If they do some good stuff along the way so be it.

I wouldn't put it past them to phrank a 15 year old girl, because well, it wouldn't be the first time they terrorized a young girl.

Now granted, Jessie *WAS* being a bit of a twit by all reports, but I mean crud, she was like 11 when Anonymous decided to go after her.

I wouldn't put it past them either; on the other hand, the only "proof" we have that this was a coordinated attack is an easy-to-find image.

An equally-likely scenario is simply that some of her friends were asshats and began inviting friends-of-friends and other randoms, and that a lot of those people simply accept invites without reading them.