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Coffee, tea, friend request? I know, not very original but it’s all over the news.
A flight attendant is in big trouble after sending a friend request to an underage passenger that had been on his domestic Australian flight.
Australian airline Jetstar forgot to put something in their social media policy about sending Facebook friend requests to 15 year old girls or maybe they should be a bit more specific when they ask their flight crews to mind the “customer experience”. The airline is investigating and it will be interesting to find out how this happened. Here are a couple of scenarios that pop into my head:
- The girl may have said she was 18 years old when she chatted with the male flight attendant in question
- The flight attendant looked up the girls name without thinking that she may be younger than she looks
Of course there is the scenario of the flight attendant looking up the name of the girl on the manifest, ”friending” her on Facebook and then eventually setting up a clandestine meeting with her at a fast-food restaurant or something. This very idea has the mother of the teen outraged and Jetstar has been forced to make a public apology.
I’ll keep you updated on the blog and on Facebook of course. Why didn’t they have Facebook when I was 15?
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When I first read about this I was on the flight attendant’s side. I mean, a request to be a friend — what is the big deal? I have young people as friends on Facebook. But, then I read a bit more about this and I changed my mind. The flight attendant allegedly pulled the girl’s name from the flight manifest, and sent her multiple requests (which she turned down). He also sent at least one message in which he said he had never had a 16-year-old on his Facebook friend list before (so he knew she was young) and went on to request her phone number, and suggest they might meet.
If the girl had given the flight attendant her Facebook info I’d cut the flight attendant a break. But, if it is true he used the manifest to obtain info — well, that is an invasion of privacy, at the very least.
Interesting. I thought 15 was the age of consent in Australia. Not that it really makes it ok…