Social Media

Facebook “SUCK IT” Costs Dad $80,000

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…


Suspect Leaves Facebook Comments Under His “Wanted” Photo

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…



You + Crime + Police Car + Facebook = Arrest

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…





Bishop Says Octuple Bigamy Due to “Misunderstanding”

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…


Lawyer’s Ketchup Email Circles the Globe

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…