Irish American Facebook friends discover they’re related through a status update

Paula O’Brien and Abbey Donohoe discovered they are aunt and niece via Facebook   When Paula O’Brien and Abbey Donohoe met at a party four years ago, people instantly began to comment on how similar they looked. However, last week, a Facebook post from O’Brien would lead to the revelation that the two were in…

 

Students seek cyber-bullying input

Young prefer to learn about online care from peers not authority, conference told Young people should be consulted on Government policies affecting cyber-bullying, a secondary school student conference was told today. Some 150 young people from over a dozen Dublin schools attended the ‘Empowering our Generation’ conference organised by Drimnagh Castle secondary school student council….

 

Woman arrested after trying to sell her kids on Facebook

Covered in detail by Oklahoma’s News 9 station, a 22-year-old woman named Misty Van Horn was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly attempting to sell both of her children on the Internet. Using Facebook messaging as her communication medium, VanHorn first attempted to sell her two-year-old child for a price tag of $1,000. However, she upped the price to $4,000…