When will people learn not to post confidential things on Facebook? Would it be wrong to hope the answer is "never"? Here's a short opinion (and a report from the Miami Herald) teaching not only that less Facebook is more but also…
This is not one of those cases, ever-increasing in number, in which somebody is apprehended because of his or her own misuse of social media. According to the report in the Bradenton Herald, they caught this 23-year-old robbery suspect through…
I'm pleased to note that the 2012 Ig Nobel Prize for Literature went to the U.S. Government General Accountability Office for the report it published in May entitled, "Actions Needed to Evaluate the Impact of Efforts to Estimate Costs of…
Self-explanatory: WYMT-TV in Letcher County, Kentucky, reported on Tuesday that the 20-year-old gentleman who appears in this picture he posted on Facebook had been arrested and charged with theft for siphoning gas from a police car. Police were able to…
If you must steal it, please do post a picture of yourself with it on Facebook.
Richard Leon Barton Jr., who I knew right away was in trouble because the report used all three of his names, was charged with polygamy recently after his first wife learned he had another one and reported him to the…
A Canadian woman who has been on long-term leave from her job since being diagnosed with major depression had her benefits taken away after her insurer found pictures of her on Facebook having fun. After Nathalie Blanchard's benefit checks suddenly…
Bishop Anthony Owens of Memphis, Tennessee, is back in jail on bigamy charges again after a woman said he proposed to her not long after being released from serving his previous sentence. He had apparently proposed to three other women…
Yet another lesson taught by the internet on what not to write in an email. In 2005, a senior associate at Baker & McKenzie's London office became a bit irritated with a secretary who had allegedly spilled ketchup on his…