Tag: FACEBOOK FACE LOSS

Embedded video from <a href="http://www.cnn.com/video">CNN Video</a> In the past we've shown plenty of examples of employees and students losing their jobs and receiving other sorts of ...

Usually, we assume that when strange, attractive women ask to be our friends on Facebook or MySpace that they're fronts for spyware, spammers or porn sites. But, apparently, those aren't the only dangers. According to a report from the Consumerist, at least one debt collection agency made use of a fake Facebook profile to keep tabs on debtors. The story, which admittedly has some holes in it, ...

With Facebook's meteoric rise in membership and popularity, the site has been forced to not only tinker with its Terms of Service, but to also address salacious, insulting and otherwise inappropriate messages and pictures. People over the age of 30 have been flocking to the site, and, in order to appeal to this contingent as well as the original audience of college students, administrators are ...

According to Facebook's oft-criticized Terms of Service (TOS), members are not allowed to "post content that is hateful, threatening, pornographic or that contains nudity or graphic or gratuitous violence." After changing its original TOS in February, and then quickly switching back after a mild public uproar, Facebook means to prove that its new-old TOS are to be taken seriously. According to ...

Facebook strikes again! Crouching patiently in wait for one of its members to show a lapse in judgment, Facebook attacks, getting the victim fired or arrested before sparking an ensuing media frenzy. The most recent victim, a philandering Italian lothario, lost his soon-to-be wife because of Facebook ignorance, or arrogance, according to Asylum. While perusing the social networking site just days ...

Two Nebraska youngsters who used Facebook to hype an unsupervised house party as "History Making," instead made headlines when police officers busted the underage fiesta. Christopher Phelan, 22, and his sister Cassandra, 19, promoted the soiree, which was expected to draw hundreds of teen revelers and promised to feature a DJ, a photographer, six kegs of beer, and plenty of booze. Given a ...

We've heard of people getting fired for posting incriminating photos on Facebook, or bad mouthing their jobs in their status updates, but this is the first time that we've ever heard of someone getting sacked for simply logging in to the social networking service. A Swiss woman, who remains unidentified, called in to work at Nationale Suisse, sick with a migraine headache, according to a brief, ...

We've covered teens being fired, firemen being reprimanded, people being arrested, and politicians getting in hot water all for comments or photos displayed on social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace. Vaughan Ettienne, a New York policeman, recently discovered yet another repercussion of unadulterated comments on his profile pages: a suspect's acquittal in court. After pursuing a ...

Facebook offers members opportunities to not only remain in contact with distant friends and meet new people with common interests, but to also voice their opinions and describe in great detail the minutiae of their daily lives. For some reason, though, people can't seem to grasp the concept that they might be held responsible for their statements. Mike Sabz, a firefighter for the Mid and West ...

Fair or not, you've got to be very careful what you post online these days. Schools, employers, and everyone else is probably going to check out what you choose to share on social networking sites like Facebook. Sixteen-year-old Kimberley Swann learned this the hard way after she was unceremoniously dumped from her position as an administrator at Ivell Marketing and Logistics Limited in Essex, ...

When will people learn? Stop posting stupid stuff on your Facebook page. The constant barrage of idiots losing girlfriends and jobs because they haven't learned the fine art of self-censorship on social networking sites is unnerving. Let us spell it out for you one more time -- employers will look at your MySpace/Facebook/Twitter/etc. page. We thought maybe after the tale of Kevin Colvin, who was ...

Where will the madness end? We've seen people dumped on Facebook, fired because of Facebook, and now one football (that's what they call soccer across the pond) player has inadvertently revealed, thanks for Facebook, that he was trying out for a different team, unbeknownst to his current club. UK soccer player Ashley-Paul Robinson, currently a member of the Crystal Palace team, updated his ...