Can you get traced and sued over facebook overseas?

[auraming]

For example you're in China and you made dummy accounts and contacted an American's friends in facebook and told them that this person's mother is a whore, his father a bum, that his family is poor,etc. can your accounts be traced to your residential address in China and can you get sued despite being continents apart?

[iloveyou32]

YES,.you absolutly can.

[miniaturesugar777]

it's very unlikely you could be sued over that in the SAME country. Words alone are not actionable unless they cause specific damage to the person. Calling people childish name does not cause damage.

[Bella Rose]

You can get traced for your activities on Facebook anywhere on earth. The internet is a universal activity. Facebook is owned and controlled by two fellows in California. If anything goes amiss anywhere in the world on Facebook then they are the ones who are contactable to do something about it. Also if you have to abide by the laws of the USA and various other countries in relation to what is listed on Facebook.

A case in point in the last six months in Australia there have been three youth deaths and friends have put comments about their death on Facebook. Two of these deaths have occurred in the past couple of weeks and the Premier of the state of Queensland Australia has contacted the people at Facebook to do something about the abusive content of these entries. They have simply replied saying that it is a social networking site and it is not their responsibility. However, it does involve a teen murder and a child murder and is a serious matter in this jurisdiction. The Premier Anna Bligh is quite within her right to ask Facebook to take down abusive material about people - both of whom are minors and both of whom have been murdered.

Facebook was less than co-operative. I doubt that they are going to be too worried about what you say about your Mum. However, if a future employer finds the material it could affect your employability and it does not reflect positively upon your character as a person to speak like that about the person who bought you into the world.

Article re Premier Anne Bligh & Facebook
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/bli...5834440162
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2...830634.htm
http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/five...s-defaced/

I hope that this helps give you some examples of the abuse of Facebook. It is a great networking site and you should keep it that way so that when you do go overseas you can keep in touch with family and friends and put photos of where you have been up there and your friends and family will you are OK and having a good time.

Happy travelling.

Cheers!!!
Wrong Action have consequences!!! In a virtual world you can be litigated virtually anywhere if what you say, or even imply is damaging to the good name and/or public persona of the person that it has been said about.