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The era we live in is simply amazing and that’s mostly because of technology.

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The Internet is awesome – it allows us to communicate more easily and with more people. The problem with the Internet is that it can never be fully trusted, as you never know whom you may encounter. You never know who is at the other end of the line.

Take Warriena’s story for example, provided by MSN.

Gable Tostee has been found not guilty of killing Tinder date Warriena Wright, who fell to her death from his 14th-floor apartment balcony on Queensland’s Gold Coast.

A Supreme Court jury in Brisbane had struggled to reach a verdict, but it finally acquitted Mr Tostee of both murder and manslaughter, with the decision handed down just hours after defence lawyers called for a mistrial.

Jurors rejected the crown’s case that Mr Tostee had intimidated the New Zealand tourist, terrifying the 26-year-old so much as to cause her to scale his balcony to escape.

During the week-long trial, the defence described the proposition as nonsense, arguing Mr Tostee, who declined to give evidence, had merely tried to stop further attacks from his erratic and violent house guest by locking her outside.

It argued he should not have had to bear criminal responsibility for her irrational decision to climb over the balcony railing.

Mr Tostee’s decision to start secretly recording their date inside his apartment an hour before Ms Wright’s fatal fall was key evidence in the trial.

If the six men and six women on the jury were to have found Mr Tostee guilty of manslaughter, they had to find he unlawfully killed Ms Wright by intimidating her into trying to escape.

To find the 30-year-old guilty of murder, they needed to conclude Mr Tostee intended to cause Ms Wright grievous bodily harm by obstructing her breathing for 45 seconds, before forcing her onto the balcony.

During deliberations, the jury had been warned not to take into account Mr Tostee’s actions after the fatal fall.

He first called his lawyer, rather than triple-0, left his apartment via the basement and walked around the local nightclub precinct and bought a slice of pizza.

Mr Tostee and Ms Wright had been on their first date the night she died, after meeting on the dating app Tinder.

After having sex at Mr Tostee’s Surfers Paradise unit the pair had a violent drunken fight.

Prosecutor Glen Cash QC argued while Ms Wright had probably unlawfully assaulted Mr Tostee just prior to being locked outside, his response was disproportionate and unlawful.

He physically restrained and restricted Ms Wright’s throat with his forearm, the prosecution alleged, and was recorded saying she was lucky he had not thrown her off the balcony.

Mr Cash said Mr Tostee’s intimidating conduct left Ms Wright feeling like she had no means of escape other than scaling the balcony. But the defence argued the crown case was “nonsensical”, and Ms Wright, who had been erratic and “out of control” during the evening, had essentially decided to “climb to certain death”.