Facebook ain’t 911
dwergs posted in "Facebookology". 1 year ago 
Two girls lost in a stormwater drain in Adelaide, Australia, raised alert over Facebook rather than dialing 000 (the emergency telephone number in their country).
The 10- and 12-year-old girls updated a Facebook status to say they were lost in a drain on Honeypot Road at Hackham in Adelaide’s southern suburbs on Sunday night. Glenn Benham from the fire service says it was fortunate a young friend was online at the time and was able to call for help for them: “If they were able to access Facebook from their mobile phones, they could have called 000, so the point being they could have called us directly and we could have got there quicker than relying on someone being online and replying to them and eventually having to call us via 000 anyway.” (Source: ABC.net.au)
Unless you have some “always on” Facebook friends checking out your updates 24/7, don’t rely on a website to get you out of emergencies. On the other hand, the lesson could also be that police and fire departments should consider gaining a foothold in social media.
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Cmon, just press 0! just 3 times!
Its easier than 911!
By the way, You need to check this FB page out: http://www.facebook.com/pages/I-will-name-my-So...
stupid girls didn't want their parents finding out, hence the facebook update instead of calling emergency services or their parents.
Clearly the author of this article and the two numbskulls that posted after him, are not australian. You can get mobile coverage on your phone without recieivng network coverage. Going online could have been the only way these girls could have asked for help.
Do you think your mobile phone would work if you were down a storm water drain?
Thanks for that remark, Nicole. I didn't think of bad network coverage due to the storm. Still, even the fire service thought it was odd for them not to call but use Facebook instead.
Actually Nicole, I am the 2nd “numbskull” (and an aussie)and having seen the ACTUAL news story for myself, I can tell you the reason they did it via Facebook and not calling thier parents or 000 themselves is because they did not want thier parents to find out they were playing in the drainage systems. As the article states, if they had intenet access on thier phones, they could have called 000.