Feb 2 2010Gang Members Increasingly Using Facebook And Twitter, Losing Significant Street Cred
That's right folks, gang members are taking to popular social networking sites to brag about crimes, issue threats to rival gangs, and score bitches/drugs/skrilla. Basically everything Facebook and Twitter were invented for.
When a gang member was released from jail soon after his arrest for selling methamphetamine, friends and associates assumed he had cut a deal with authorities and become a police informant.
They sent a warning on Twitter that went like this: We have a snitch in our midst."We are seeing a lot more of it," Johnston said. "They will even go out and brag about doing shootings."
Gang use of Twitter and Facebook still lags behind use of the much-older MySpace, which remains gang members' online venue of choice.
Ah, I was wondering who still used Myspace. It's the gangs, huh? I guess I better delete my old profile before somebody threatens to pop a cap in my ass. Just sayin', I'm trying to keep this ass cap-free (can pull-tabs still okay).
Gang members moving to Twitter, Facebook [msnbc]
Thanks to FDSY, who had this to add, "LOL @ bloods. OMG those crips are str8 up d34d"
Reader Comments
1. Isaac - February 2, 2010 4:50 PM
How stupid can you be?
2. htdg - February 2, 2010 4:56 PM
I remember back in the good 'ol days when we actually talked (fired guns) face to face.
3. Closet Nerd - February 2, 2010 4:59 PM
"Stupid is, as stupid does"..... just sayin
4. Squidly - February 2, 2010 5:01 PM
On the left, isn't that Charles Barkly?
5. naas - February 2, 2010 5:06 PM
i hear gang members are flocking to geekologie to ween themselves off the homosex
6. om3ga - February 2, 2010 5:15 PM
u r a ded man believe it killa
7. Graf Zeppelin - February 2, 2010 5:20 PM
next thing you know it people are going to issue gang threats on geek... wait a minute...
8. ObamaPacman - February 2, 2010 6:05 PM
Pew pew biatch!
9. bloawdude - February 2, 2010 6:05 PM
what is skarilla?
10. Meniscus J - February 2, 2010 6:12 PM
@4 Yes
11. Ken Goldstein - February 2, 2010 6:34 PM
Sir with the violations you have committed I wouldn't worry about someone putting a 'cap' in your ass. Id worry more so about the lawsuits that are impending against yourself.
CONTACT MY OFFICE.
12. naas - February 2, 2010 7:05 PM
Anyone using twitter loses street cred
Twitter is like that person we've all seen before shouting on their cell phone in public, you know - that person who needs to talk really loud so everyone else can hear their conversation? Yes... that person thinks everyone is interested in what they're talking about when in fact, everyone is really interested in punching them for being an arrogant, ignorant, self absorbed prick
13. 642-812 - February 2, 2010 8:15 PM
I remember back in the good 'ol days when we actually talked (fired guns) face to face.
14. Johnny Tight Lips - February 2, 2010 11:44 PM
Make money not headlines, when did these "gangs" turn into groups of 12 year old girls?
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17. Injut - February 3, 2010 9:14 AM
At least it will be easier to track down these stupid fùcks since they are bragging all over the Internet.
18. Jaded Icon - February 3, 2010 9:27 AM
About as stupid as the delinquents that commit crimes, video them and then upload it onto YouTube......morons.
19. Closet Nerd - February 3, 2010 10:52 AM
@4 And the guy on the right looks like John Malkovich.... just sayin
20. Milkman - February 3, 2010 11:06 AM
Be glad, by being THIS STUPID to post in their facebook and twitters online about their murders, they're helping authorities keep them locked up in prison - and out of the gene pool.
Bravo, keep it up guys! :)
21. Squidly - February 3, 2010 1:56 PM
@10 Okay cool. Thanks for the reassurance!
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