A member of the jury trial in London, Joan Frehley, which entered into correspondence with the defendant on Facebook, face imprisonment for contempt of court. On Thursday she was sentenced to eight months in prison.
She has learned from its experience painful lesson, but other Facebook users need to learn what not to do in this social network.
' Add Friend '? . Frehley, Joan did not do. She said, that sympathy prompted her to find on Facebook Jamie Syuart, held on drug. This became known to the judge, and in less than a year later she was Joan in the dock.
This is the first criminal case in Britain, associated with the Internet, but not the first time - and certainly not the last - Facebook users do not enter into relationships with people. Nathan Singh, a member of the detention facility at Leicester prison, was fired from his job when it was discovered that among his friends on Facebook are prisoners serving life.
However, the wrong choice is not always obvious. Charlotte Fielder, who was born without one arm, entered into friendly correspondence with a man on Facebook, pretending he himself lost an arm, when in fact he sexually attracted people with disabilities. Later, Charlotte found that her picture, copied from Facebook, posted on pornosayte with obscene comments.
It sounds trite, but these rakes come so many. The woman, known only by name - Lindsey - declared: ' Oh God, how I hate my job! ' And then immediately fell on his head. A couple of hours she recalled that her boss is in the list of ' friends '. And he is reported to Lindsey wrote that at work the next day it does not necessarily come. ' Calculation I will send by mail. No, I'm not kidding '- he wrote.
Virgin Airlines also sent to several members of the calculation of air crew. They called their passengers ' Gopnik ' and claimed that the company's planes are teeming with cockroaches, and the engines have to change four times a year. Career 13 of them dived steeply down - they were fired.
Especially prone to fall into the trap of policy. No matter how deep are your beliefs, it is not recommended to take politics too personally. This lesson is learned the candidate of the Assembly of Wales, Joe Locke. Last year he posted a link to the Facebook group ' has died a Margaret Thatcher? ' . Tories announced that it is insulting and unacceptable for a man who aspires to a career of public policy. Joe Locke is nothing to do but humbly apologize.
A member of the administration of the city of Blackpool, Blackburn, Simon Labour, was also forced to take it back after the extraordinarily rude comments about their electorate on Facebook, we could see everything. Conservatives called it ' political suicide ', but they were mistaken: Simon Blackburn Blackpool now heads the administration.
The candidate from the conservative Kent Payyamu Tamiz less fortunate. In one of the discussions on Facebook, he called the local women ' whores '. He wrote that he wanted to start a family, and to connect his life with a ' decent woman ', but ' it is impossible to find a woman of moral behavior with self-esteem '. He had to apologize for a long time and eventually withdraw his candidacy.
If you do not limit the scope of persons who have access to view your personal page on Facebook, shame and awkward situation you provided - this can be an unwanted double chin in the photo, and maybe glassy eyes and squeezed the bottle in his hand in a very .