I agree with you totally, Ida. FB can be misused -- sometimes on purpose and sometimes with no bad intent -- and sometimes with just not understanding how it works. This is not the same by any means but I've often rolled my eyes when people make plans to do something with someone else and, instead of private messaging, they talk about it on their wall -- not a dangerous situation like this case but something that should be done privately, not out in the open. This just shows what can happen by not thinking.

I also agree about the neighbor -- he should have called 911. My neighborhood is such that if someone was having that big of a party, we'd all know about it ahead of time so if we didn't and that many people were at one house, we'd know something was going on that wasn't supposed to be.

Anyway, very sad case. Were the parents out of town or just not at the house? I know the kid was afraid of getting in trouble but he probably should have called his parents when it first began to get out of hand.