Social Networking: A Handful

Every day there's stories about the ups and downs of social networking;

• Woman Finds Father Through Facebook After 20 Years
• Social Networking Sites Can Strain Marriages
• State to use Twitter to manage H1N1 clinic crowds
• Oklahoma gangs turn to social media to boost recruiting

Unfortunately, there's rarely enough time to address or even list them.

Though, occasionally one will stand out...

A 19 year-old California college student, Geovany Alarcon, met a 17 year-old Colorado girl on MySpace and they started a cyber-relationship.

They exchanged phone numbers; started texting; she'd send him pictures; he talked her into taking the photos in states of undress; then he asked her to film sex acts... and now he's been sentenced to four years in prison because he threatened to forward the pics to her friends and family, if she didn't pay him $1500.