Saud bin Nasser Al Shahry, a Saudi man, attempted to sell his son on Facebook. On Tuesday, the Daily Mail reported that Shahry posted a status on the popular social media website saying he was offering his son in exchange for 20 million dollars. He suggested that he would be willing to finalize the transaction in court, if the buyer stated which city or town he/she lived in. In response to this issue, he said that he decided to sell his son so that he could continue to support his wife and daughter. Facebook later removed his profile from their database, restricting Shahry from accessing the popular social networking site.
In my opinion, I find this issue disturbing yet hilarious at the same time. To think that this man would actually believe that he could succeed and not get caught in trading off his son on a monitored social networking site as popular as Facebook is, baffles me. Selling off your own child (which is horrifying in the first place) face to face with another person is extremely different than trying to find an offer over a social networking site. Not to say that conversing with human beings in the flesh is any better than over the internet, it would just make more sense to do it in person rather than somewhere where your every status update is put up on a screen for everyone to see.
Facebook made the quick and correct decision to delete the status and deactivate Al Shahry's account. In the future, the admins should continue to inspect and monitor these issues closely to make sure this doesn't happen again because selling one's child over a website should never happen. For Al Shahry's sake, I really hope he's realized what he's done, for it can ruin the relationship between himself and his son (if it hasn't already) and the relationship with the rest of his family and friends. It makes me sad to think that people would give up their own flesh and blood for power and money.
No comments:
Post a Comment