Smart Facebooking: Your Lawyer Will Thank You
Jul 2nd, 2010 by admin
Some version of this story has been going around: Namely, divorce lawyers look to Facebook 
to see what information about themselves folks (usually the opposing party) are making public. The example the story offers is this: “Forgot to de-friend your wife on Facebook while posting vacation shots of your mistress? Her divorce lawyer will be thrilled.”
Taken from examples in the story, here are things not to do:
- Go to an online dating service and state that you are single and childless while actually going through a divorce and seeking custody of the kids;
- Claim that you spend time with your kids when your online-gaming log-ins prove that you don’t;
- Deny drug or alcohol consumption and then post pictures of yourself indulging in those vices.
It seems that an increased awareness of social networking sites as potential sources of evidence should eventually lead to fewer and fewer of these gaffes. In the meantime, here are some great tips from the article:
- Watch what you say - If you plan on lying under oath, don’t load up social networks with evidence to the contrary.
- Beware frenemies.
- Photos can be costly.
- Privacy settings - Find them. Get to know them. Use them. Keep up when Facebook decides to change them.