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A FB friendship that went wrong. A 19 year old guy ended up being arrested in Indiana as result of trying to rape a girl he met on Facebook.
Kung Bik Cem, traveled from Jacksonville to Indianapolis in order to find the girl he met on Facebook at a wedding she was attending, she never agreed to meet him. According to her  statement she had never met him in person before and did not want any kind of relationship with Cem, but he did not accept it and did not leave her alone.
During the ceremony in order to get the girl's attention, Cem took her phone so she in an attempt to get it back would follow him. She ended up inside his car and he drove away. When he stopped he forced the girl to the back seat as he told her he loves her, wants to take her back home with him and that he was going to impregnate her so she would have to marry him.
Fortunately police arrived in time to stop Cem and rescue the girl. Cem is now facing charges for attempted rape, criminal confinement and thef.
So, this event is consequence of how normal it has become to start contacting with strangers trough social media. Although is not a good/bad or black/white situation since good outcomes may come from meeting new people using social media still is necessary to avoid trusting everyone because even when the person behind the screen looks like its profile shows, there is no way to know which are the intentions and what is going on in that person mind.  Sharing our day by day on social media, chatting with people we do not really know in can lead to events like this or even worse.
Therefore meeting people over social media require more caution from our part since some not so mentally health individuals can end up committing acts like Crem which was completely deliberate.
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