social media gone wrong

MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry told her viewers Saturday that her one-time love of Twitter has been destroyed thanks to haters who flood her feed with hate. “I am at a point where I don’t retweet anything that I really like because I fear that I would send all of my haters, all of the harassment […]

A pregnant woman lost her baby after she was shot in the stomach by another woman she had been arguing on Facebook with, The Daily News reports: The shooting occurred in Jacksonville, Fla., Wednesday after the expectant mother, identified as 23-year-old Markeisha Brooks, went over to 35-year-old Virginia Wyche’s house to confront her about a dispute […]

US Airways has apologized after a pornographic image was mistakenly sent out from its Twitter account. USA Today reports: The image was tweeted at least once in response to a customer who complained to US Airways in a tweet saying: “You ruined my spring break, I want some free stuff.” American Airlines, which is in […]

A Michigan woman is on probation for a drunken-driving conviction and nearly got away with having a few drinks on St. Patrick’s Day — until she bragged about passing a breath test on Facebook. Colleen Cudney, 22 — who has been under strict orders to not drink since her 2012 conviction — was apparently so […]

Three Virginia teens busted after posting YouTube rap video with them toting guns and hanging out in out of control car. The New York Daily News reports: The teens who recorded a rap video featuring themselves toting guns and hanging out of an out-of-control car were busted on weapons and trespassing charges last week, according […]

In another case of over sharing on social media, a Mexican teen brutally stabbed her best friend to death for posting naked selfies of them together on Facebook. The New York Daily News reports: Erandy Elizabeth Gutierrez, 16, allegedly knifed Anel Baez, also 16, a horrifying 65 times. Cops believe she wanted revenge for the “humiliating” […]