Kill-Face(book)

Last week, a list of the names of 69 young men in Puerto Asis, Colombia was published on Facebook. "Leave town in three days", they ominously warned, "or you will be executed." Now, three on the list are dead! That's teach people to not fear anonymous posts on the interweb!

On August 15, two days before the list was published, 16-year-old "student" Diego Ferney Jaramillo and 17-year-old "CD retailer" Eibart Alejandro Ruiz Munoz were killed while riding their motorcycle to another town. Both Munoz and Jaramilo were on the list, which grew to 100 total names as 31 girls were added as few days later. What police thought was a hoax became serious after 19-year-old Norbey Alexander Vargas was killed, and 16-year-old Juan Pablo Zambrano Anacona was injured (by Vargas' killers) on August 20. Both teens' names were on the list.

Authorities don't know who put the list together, though a gang called Los Rastrojos is active in the area, as well as longtime Colombian Marxist rebel group FARC. Reports state the list is now "blocked," though it's unclear what it was exactly on Facebook —a note? An event? A page? And I'm just wondering if it's just easier to unfriend them rather than hunt 100 people down and kill them...