Tag: FACEBOOKFACELOSS

An Australian teen's Facebook account was hacked and used to invite more than 4,000 people to a party at his parents' house. According to an AAP report, the unnamed South Brisbane boy, who apparently had planned on having a small party with friends before his account was compromised, told his dad what had happened when the number of people who RSVPd climbed into the thousands. "The first thing ...

Share When two Navy helicopters unexpectedly landed at Lake Tahoe Airport on September 13th, they did so with half a million dollars in damages. Even more unexpected, an ensuing Navy investigation has found that the damage was caused by the crafts' two pilots and their decision to hover just above the surface of Lake Tahoe -- so that they could post the pictures to Facebook, no less. (Did we ...

Police in Oregon think they've found a bank robbery suspect known as the 'Where's Waldo Bandit,' although the man they've targeted certainly wasn't as subtle as his namesake. Law enforcement officials are now on the lookout for 29-year-old Ryan Homsley, who is suspected of robbing and threatening to blow up a local bank on Tuesday afternoon. As the AP reports, police identified Homsley as a ...

Where do police officers go when their fancy cruisers need some scrubbin' and lovin'? Why, a car wash run by bikini-clad strippers, of course! One officer in Moncks Corner, South Carolina, however, recently decided to take a picture of his police car getting the full treatment, and was stupid enough to post it on his Facebook profile. He then proceeded to lose his job. The unidentified ...

Last week, police in Pennsylvania arrested a 27-year-old man on charges of statutory rape, after he had inexplicably professed his love for a 14-year-old girl on Facebook. A child welfare agency in Delaware County initially alerted law enforcement authorities after the suspect, Robert Nickson, Jr., announced on Facebook that he was "in love" with and "engaged" to his unnamed teenage paramour. ...

The idyllic burg of Blogtown would get mighty lonely and boring without the asinine behavior of oblivious social networkers. Snarky nerds now depend on those daily stories of arrests, divorces, firings and expulsions, so -- thankfully -- a kind Michigan resident has stepped up to the plate of social networking stupidity. Hadley Jons, an enthusiastic juror serving in a resisting arrest trial, ...

Share Here's a great way to get yourself fired: logging onto Facebook, and letting the world know how much you hate your job -- and the people you work for -- especially if you work with kids. That's exactly what Dr. June Talvitie-Siple did, and it totally worked. Dr. Talvitie-Siple, supervisor of the math and science program at Massachusetts's Cohasset High School, recently used the social ...

Updated: Well it looks like the tale of our sassy quitter may be too good to be true. Peter Kafka at All Things Digital did some homework and uncovered that the guys behind theCHIVE (the site that broke the Jenny story) were also behind a prank piece about Donald Trump leaving a $10,000 tip that tricked The New York Post and Fox News. Leo Resig, one of the site's founders refused to confirm or ...

To nobody's surprise, a recent study claimed that more couples are finding evidence of marital infidelity via Facebook. After all, if somebody's doing something, no matter how innocuous or unsightly, it's probably going to get posted on the social networking site. According to the AP, Lynn France, of Westlake, Ohio, learned this the hard way when she discovered that her husband John had a second ...

Dealing with intrusive parents and family members on social networking sites certainly poses a difficult dilemma. Faced with such a predicament, a 16-year-old in Arkansas has apparently grown so disturbed by his mother's Facebook activity that he is reportedly suing the woman. The unnamed youth lives with his maternal grandmother and believes that Facebook comments made by his mother, Denise New, ...

Share Employees and job seekers are learning, slowly it seems, that anything they post online is fair game for employers. We don't need the recent survey commissioned by Microsoft to tell us that managers and recruiters are turning to social networks to review applicants, but a little reinforcement of the point doesn't hurt. Rather than exercising some well-advised self-censorship, though, new ...

The old "yelling, 'Fire!' in a crowded theater" axiom serves as one of the first, elementary lessons when discussing the constitutional right to free speech. That old standby may need a 21st century update, though, to specifically include "threats on Facebook." In January, four New Jersey high school students were arrested and charged with creating a false public alarm, making terrorist ...

Surreptitious spying has become firmly and universally established as a social networking given. Parents, employers, lovers, friends, and even law enforcement officials have turned to sites like Facebook and Twitter to monitor, find, and implicate frivolous and oblivious posters. The legality of such practices rests in a gray area, though, and the potential wrongdoing is definitely not isolated ...

When will people learn what is and isn't appropriate to post on Facebook? Judging by the news we see on a daily basis, probably never. According to the Omaha World-Herald, three Nebraska state prison guards have been suspended this week after posting comments on Facebook about beating up an inmate. Caleb Bartels posted on his wall on February 8th: "When you work in a prison a good day is ...

Babies these days just can't catch a break. When parents aren't turning their infants into LOLCats, they're posting every waking moment (literally) of their existence to the Internet for the whole world to go gaga over. Or, every now and then, they're dumb enough to publish photos so scandalous that social services comes a-knocking. The BBC reports that police in Essex, U.K. have undertaken a ...