When I was in kindergarden, there was this kid named Giorgio. I know, it’s a weird name but I went to kindergarden in Milan and Giorgio, is Italian for George. So this Giorgio kid, other than having the dubious talent of making snot-nostril-bubbles, was the type of annoying kid that would spend half his time in school telling people they were not his friend anymore.
That, my friends, is the legacy, or vintage technique of unfriending someone and we’ve all been there, most of us on the receiving end. Most of us also simply turn the page and shrug while producing a Tonto-like “ok” sound.
However, in Tennessee someone didn’t take lightly to being unfriended, on Facebook, where virtual reality meets normal reality, and somehow also meets a little bit of CSI. Billy Clay Payne, Jr. and Billie Jean Hayworth were killed last month after they deleted Jenelle Potter from their friend list on Facebook. The culprits? Not Mrs. Potter as you’d have thought, but her father, Marvin Enoch “Buddy” Potter Jr., 60, and Jamie Lynn Curd, 38, who were each charged on Wednesday in Mountain City in northeastern Tennessee, with two counts of first-degree murder.
For the record, as far as I know, the Giorgio I depict above, although real, did not grow up to spawn the quasi-Italian restaurant chain, that shares his name. At least I hope not.
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