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Watch What You Post on Facebook!

By Restaurant Chef, published Jul 24, 2008
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We have to be careful on what we post on social networking sites. Extreme personal information and pictures should never be posted online. Once it is posted online there is no way you can clean up all the tracks because it take a simple click of a mouse to save pictures.

Fake Facebook (7/24/08)
In London a man sued a friend for placing unauthorized information about him on the social networking site Facebook. Mathew Firsht won $43,767 in court against Grant Raphael. Grant has set up a Facebook that looked as if Mathew has set it up. The page has incorrect information about Mathew's sexuality, political views and money owed to Grant. The brother spotted the paged and immediately informed the Facebook staff to delete the pages. Facebook said that the page was made from Grant's computer. Grant told the judges that people have created the page when he threw a party at his apartment the International Herald Tribune reports.

Pictures on Facebook (7/18/08)
In Providence, Rhode Island, Joshua Lipton's picture that was posted on Facebook got him two years in prison. Joshua was charge because he was drinking and driving, then hit a woman and seriously injured her. Two weeks after the incident he was at a Halloween party dressed as a prisoner. Someone posted the pictures on Facebook and the woman's lawyer was able to use that against him. The lawyer targeted Joshua lived a party life while the victim was in the hospital suffering. The judge sentenced him to two years in prison the Associated Press reports.

Watch What You Post on Facebook!

Joshua Lipton at the Party!

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Lipton sounds like a real idiot.

Posted on 08/13/2008 at 7:08:21 PM

 
Good warning! I can't believe what some kids and teens are posting on the 'Net!

Posted on 08/07/2008 at 7:08:42 PM

 
I can't believe people do not understand how this can hurt their rep. Good stuff.

Posted on 07/30/2008 at 11:07:19 AM

 
thanks for the warning!

Posted on 07/29/2008 at 12:07:06 PM

 
Be careful EVERYWHERE. great article chef :)

Posted on 07/27/2008 at 6:07:11 PM

 
People should just learn to think, in general!

Posted on 07/27/2008 at 3:07:10 PM

 
Great article.

Posted on 07/27/2008 at 12:07:22 PM

 
Good article. Yep, more employers are checking these sites.

Posted on 07/26/2008 at 11:07:40 PM

 
You do have to be careful! Nicely written. I have to be sure to mark any pictures I upload as private (only for friends) so that friends of friends can't view them too. Crazy how easy it is to see other people's private albums!

Posted on 07/26/2008 at 8:07:38 PM

 
Excellent work`!

Posted on 07/26/2008 at 7:07:02 PM

 
Great info. You need always to be careful with posting in Internet sites.

Posted on 07/26/2008 at 9:07:42 AM

 
Gosh, I don't go near that stuff but my adult kids do (:

Posted on 07/26/2008 at 6:07:31 AM

 
You've always got to be careful about what you do and what you put on the Internet.

Posted on 07/25/2008 at 11:07:51 PM

 
It is scary to think of how people can exploit you for their own selfish gains online! You need to be so careful. Sophie

Posted on 07/25/2008 at 11:07:15 PM

 
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Posted on 07/25/2008 at 9:07:29 PM

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