And another viral Facebook post:

A little girl wanted to know what the United States looked like. Her Dad tore a map of the USA from a magazine and then cut it into small pieces. He told her to go to her room to see if she could put it together. After some minutes she returned and handed the map correctly fitted and taped together. The Dad was surprised and asked how she had finished so quickly. She said, “On the other side was a picture of Jesus and when I put him back then our country just came together!”

I’m most concerned about her not knowing what the US looked like, yet was capable of putting together the face of Jesus from small pieces in minutes. I call shenanigans on this post. </sarcasm>

God, I hate this cut and paste crap. Click to search the phrase “if you agree” on Openbook. It’s the new chain email, I swear.

UPDATE: As of 10:15 PM MST, it appears the page is down. The sentiment still stands. A little bit of online Way Back Machine research has shown he puts it up as soon as it’s removed. If he does, I’ll update the link. I encourage people to still reblog. We need to be aware of things like this page. It’s one thing to start a troll page. It’s another to start issuing racist, misogynistic threats.

SECOND UPDATE: At 11:45 PM MST, a sharp-eyed Facebooker spotted a brand-new possible profile for this guy. Keep an eye on Carl Zukosky - don’t report just yet.

This Facebook page features racist imagery of the First Family - unfortunately, nothing new on Facebook, and that alone makes me furious. 

However, this is why I reported it:

James Earl Ray assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The intent of this message is quite clear.

In response to a woman who reported them, they posted her full name and location (which I blurred), while a supporter of this page chimed in with a veiled threat of rape:

To view the page for yourself and to report it, please click on the link above.

To Carl Zukoski, owner of the page, and those commenting as supporters of this page, you are the assholes of America.

Oh, and I’ll save you the trouble of posting my name and location because it’s no state secret. My name is Meg Lanker-Simons. I live in Laramie, Wyoming.

And I’m not afraid of you.

Things that exist:

Jason Valdez is no stranger to Utah police. His latest brush with the law, however, may have been the most public.

An armed Valdez, 36, held a woman hostage at a motel in a tense 16-hour, overnight standoff with SWAT teams, all while finding time to keep his family and friends updated on Facebook, authorities said.

He even got some help from the outside over the social network: A friend posted that a SWAT officer was hiding in the bushes… In all, Valdez made six posts and added at least a dozen new friends.

Forty-two year-old Simone Back announced her intention to commit suicide in a status update on Facebook—and not one of her over 1,000 Facebook friends reached out in person to help.

According to the Daily Mail, Back, who committed suicide on Christmas Day, wrote in her Facebook status, “Took all my pills be dead soon bye bye everyone.”

What followed was a series of callous posts from some of Back’s Facebook friends. The Telegraph writes, “Some of the Facebook friends posted messages calling her a liar and one said it was ‘her choice’. Seventeen hours later, police broke down the door of her flat in Montague Street, Brighton, and found her dead.”

I don’t care if your friend posts overly dramatic shit all the time. When a person posts something specific, you don’t mock them. You never know when someone is serious or not - especially if you don’t know them well. Attempt to contact the person in crisis and call the police. I have friends who are cops, and they’d much rather respond to a live person and do a welfare check, possibly transporting them to the hospital, versus responding to a call of someone dead and needing transport to the morgue.

Here’s some information:
If you are feeling suicidal
If someone you know is suicidal: here and here

Comprehensive information from the CDC

When 18-year-old Ally Pfeiffer found a Facebook profile impersonating her and replacing her photograph with a picture of a cow to mock her weight, she cried.

Then, though, the Connecticut teen fought back, found the IP address for the bogus page and helped police trace the cruel behavior back to Sarah Johnson and Jeff Martone, her former classmates at a Bristol, Conn., high school. And now, Johnson and Martone, both freshmen at the University of Connecticut, have been charged with criminal impersonation and second-degree harassment.

This girl is a total BAMF