Facebooking Into Trouble

Do you use Facebook? Anyone who is connected on the internet nowadays seems to have a Facebook account. It is one of the 'must haves'.

Facebook is cool. It is fun. You can instantly let your connected group of people (I did not say 'friends'), or the whole world indeed, know what you are doing. Why anyone would want to do that must rank as one of the world's greatest unsolved mysteries.

Here are just some fine examples to illustrate my point:

1. A guy was sacked from his job because he was supposed to be on medical leave but his Facebook posts show him partying.

2. A man who won an insurance claim for an injury which supposedly prevented him from doing certain physical activities lost on appeal as the insurance company was able to prove with his Facebook posts bragging about his conquer of certain New York skyscraper. Apparently he climbed the stairs all the way to the top of the building. I must say I could not have completed that feat myself.

3. A Perth DJ recently got sacked from his job because he had conspired with a friend to win a $10,000 cash giveaway prize, when he was hosting over the air. His Facebook account proves the two are friends with plenty of party pictures as evidence.

The police just loves Facebook. The employer just loves Facebook. The insurance company just loves Facebook. Yes, just about everybody else loves your Facebook, too.

Do you?