THE gruesome killing of Cynthia Osokogu, the only daughter of
Maj.-Gen. Frank Osokogu, (rtd) by two undergraduates on July 22, 2012,
in Festac Town, Lagos State, has highlighted the frightening danger
behind befriending strangers on the social networks like Facebook,
Twitter, Myspace, e.t.c.
Investigations by Crime Alert into the web of criminality associated
with social networks revealed startling cases worse than that of Cynthia
Osokogu. Such cases, unfortunately, involved mostly married women who
out of adventure or deprivation, got engaged to male friends on the
social network only to end up being photographed nude.
Checks carried