Facebook Status Feud Results In Texas Man's Arrest

CARLSBAD, N.M. -- A Texas man is facing battery charges after police say he hit his estranged New Mexico wife and pulled her hair over her lack of a response to his Facebook status update.

According to the criminal complaint, Benito Apolinar posted a comment on his Facebook page about the anniversary of his mother's death, but Dolores Apolinar didn't click the "like" status button.

The complaint says Benito Apolinar told his wife that he was unhappy that she didn't respond as others did. Police say that's when a fight began.

Benito Apolinar pleaded not guilty to one charge of battery.

It was unclear if he had hired an attorney.

Comments

[maxfax]

01:17 PM on 10/09/2011

Other than Zuckerberg and Winklevoss twins, who takes Facebook serious?

[Wendy Stewart]

12:05 PM on 10/08/2011

Absolutely ridiculous. Hate your status dude.

[Kat Ingalls]

06:59 PM on 10/07/2011

This isn't about a facebook status - that was just this waste of life's excuse to beat on his woman which he would have done even if they didn't have computers and internet connections.

[Kay Nicks]

04:29 PM on 10/07/2011

Ooooooh geeze.... get over it, and go back to playing Farmville....

[Deb Pack]

05:05 PM on 10/07/2011

I would say go play Angry Birds, but he seems to be pissed off enough already.

[Kay Nicks]

10:16 PM on 10/07/2011

Haha! No Doubt!

[gx5000]

03:27 PM on 10/07/2011

I don't get it, how could she click "Like" when she'd obviously be in front of the stove barefoot ? (bwahahahaha)

[brivany]

02:01 PM on 10/07/2011

I doubt this actually was because of Facebook. The story said estranged wife, so I have to assume there were other problems and one or the other was looking to pick a fight and it got out of hand. That being said.....I cannot stand Facebook. I started an account so a friend could show me some pictures. I quickly realized how inane it was. They don't make it easy to cancel either. You have to really search around for how to get it taken down.

[Veronix1617]

01:55 PM on 10/07/2011

Facebook....so evil.

[Tater Salad]

12:41 PM on 10/07/2011

Ah, Facebook. When will you learn relationships have no place there?

[BiggpussJr]

11:16 AM on 10/07/2011

Facebook will be the death of civilization.

[ncinkman]

12:26 PM on 10/07/2011

More likely it is the salvation of those who DON'T have a life.

[gx5000]

03:27 PM on 10/07/2011

True........true.............or maybe Huffpost huh ? ;-)

[didbblejr]

11:10 AM on 10/07/2011

This is why I seldom use my "stupid" FB account. First I never understood why I would want to put my entire life out in the public, second the new facebook is gonna be even worse by tryig to figure out your entire life by things you have posted anywhere and put it in a Time-Line format.

[gx5000]

03:28 PM on 10/07/2011

Said it once I'll say it again, we're guilty too just posting here... have a great week end !

[Isobel Quinn]

04:38 PM on 10/07/2011

there's a bit of a difference between commenting on a news or entertainment article and posting every fifteen minutes on your f/b: "just ate an AWESOME APPLE! LOLOLOL".....i made a f/b to keep in touch with my family when i moved overseas, and even though i've only actually posted anything on it three times, every morning when i wake up i have eighty or more e mails from f/b...i've grown sicker of my family now that i'm living half way across the world from them than when i lived five miles down the road...at least then i didn't get updates of my little sister's shopping list every time she went to the mall, or barrages of messages about 'that cute thing the cat did now' from my mom every half an hour. i've been trying to kill my profile for quite some time now..if anyone has any tips, i will write ballads of your bravery and wite and immortalize you in glory and praise for ever, and ever...and ever...

[Isobel Quinn]

04:48 PM on 10/07/2011

or, you know, stalk mark zuckerberg and threaten to ressurect myspace if he doesn't comply with my demands to be set free.
f/b is ruining mystique....there is nothing more effective at making someone seem intolerable than having their entire life spread out before your eyes, laundry lists and aspirational drunken rants included. if before a second date i have the ability to know more about you than i do my own mother, something's wrong. with you for wanting to detail your life for the uncaring world to see, for being egocentric enough to think anyone really cares, and society for thinking that this claustrophobic way of living is actually a good idea. note i said 'have the ability', not that i DO read these things...b/c i don't and won't. but then, i also don't / won't date anyone who owns one of these things for purely personal reasons. reducing the dating pool drastically, as i'm in my mid twenties. but anyway.

[robertstone1robert]

10:53 AM on 10/07/2011

Oh no,the violence against women over such nonsense. Stop worrying about all this garbage and get a life.

[rjollierroger]

10:43 AM on 10/07/2011

You treat your wife like that, you had better sleep very light. I have known of some ladies, who got revenge in a real bad way, once their abusive husbands went to sleep. i.e. Bobbit

[gx5000]

03:29 PM on 10/07/2011

Facebook bobbit, sounds like a real catchy song !

[Eduardo Esporanzo]

12:29 AM on 10/08/2011

Mmmmm... because mutilation of a helpless person is ever the right answer. If he's asleep, you might try actually leaving and contacting the authorities like a civilized human being.

[oxford85]

10:04 AM on 10/07/2011

Facebook is pretty much a self-inflicted privacy eradicator. I personally dislike it with a passion and this is just another reason to dislike it more.

[gx5000]

03:31 PM on 10/07/2011

Why would you post your whole life to a site that is know to share all to Vendors and has special portals for law enforcement and spy agencies that bypass your security settings ??!!

Follow the seed money, there's a great flash presentation on the web about
where the money came from and where these people worked beforehand (DARPA, IAO etc....)

[erinbliss]

09:58 AM on 10/07/2011

File for divorce, sister! Get out asap, while you can!

[obrienbuck33]

09:57 AM on 10/07/2011

This has got to be one of the most lame stories I've read on HP. Disagree with me and you'll get your hair pulled and roughed up.

[gx5000]

03:32 PM on 10/07/2011

lol

[Deb Pack]

05:09 PM on 10/07/2011

I'm shaking in my boots! LOL