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Facebook, Friend of Divorce Lawyers
crimeandpunishment writes "A lot of Facebook users going through divorces have learned a very costly lesson about their privacy settings. In fact, for many of them their Facebook pages helped lead to the divorce in the first place. More than 80% of the members of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers say they've used or run into evidence gathered from Facebook and other social networking sites over the last five years — and some of them have some very entertaining stories to tell. 'Facebook is the unrivaled leader for turning virtual reality into real-life divorce drama,' said AAML's president."
Oh, and one more thing: Magically somehow force everybody you know to think before they share.
No big deal.
It's not a big deal if you don't have stupid toolbags who will "share" things about you on your friends list. If you have to "force" your "friends" not to share your private information, they are not your friends. So, don't add them to your friends list. Wow, that was easy. It's almost like you can take responsibility for your own life instead of crying about things that you've asked for by name happening to you.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
They won't realize it's potentially sensitive information, because under the right conditions any piece of info about you could be sensitive.
What I'm really saying is that if someone you know has come to know something you don't want them to know, then they could always share it. The problem began when you permitted them to know this thing, not when they shared it on Facebook.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"