'Poking' Facebook User Led To An Arrest

Via Telegraph.co.uk, a woman was arrested for 'poking' a Facebook user.

Police deemed that 36-year-old Shannon Jackson violated a protection order – similar to a restraining order – by using the site's feature to attract the attention of another user.

The order previously obtained by the woman who received the poke banned Jackson from "telephoning, contacting or otherwise communicating with the petitioner".

We blogged about using Facebook to fire an employee, court papers being served by Facebook, court order served over Twitter, and now we write about a violation of a restraining order by using one of the Facebook applications to virtually poke another user. Any thoughts anyone?

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Social Networking = Lower Grades?

Law Blog Watch reports on this study of undergraduates done by Ohio State University:

Facebook users in the study had GPAs between 3.0 and 3.5, while non-users had GPAs between 3.5 and 4.0. The study authors aren't ready to say that using Facebook necessarily leads to less studying and hence, lower grades, just that there is a relationship between the two.

What do you think? Does this hold true for law students as well? Will too much Facebooking have a negative impact on your grades?

Fired on Facebook ... Another Role?

Facebook is no longer only the social network where people go to meet others, share pictures, or connect with old friends. Following an older post about Australian court that allowed lawyers to serve a couple with a lawsuit papers via Facebook, here is yet another role that Facebook has easily fulfilled; the Calgary Herald reports that a Canadian spa used Facebook to fire an employee, esthetician Crystal Bell. Additional discussion is posted on Legal Blog Watch.

Court Papers Served By Facebook

On the Legal Blog Watch, an interesting post titled Court Papers Served by Facebook by Carolyn Elefan about serving court papers via one of the biggest social networks Facebook.

Imagine opening your inbox on a social networking site and finding an invitation -- not to connect to an acquaintance -- but to show up in court. That may be the direction that social networking is headed, at least in the aftermath of a case out of Australia, where a judge granted lawyers permission to serve defendants with a default judgment via Facebook.

Do social networks take on yet another role? What are your thoughts on it?

JDSupra & Facebook

Why waste precious time (that we all seem not to have enough of) to re-invent the wheel? JDSupra is a legal document sharing site where one can search or browse for the materials needed. Thousands of legal documents (court filings, decisions, forms, articles, alerts, newsletters, ...) are submitted and shared by the professionals who created them (lawyers, law firms, public interest groups, academics, members of the legal community, ...). The keyword search can be refined by jurisdiction (court, circuit, region), by type of filing and/or by subject matter.

JDSupra has also launched an application for Facebook. JD Supra Docs application connects the JD Supra and Facebook accounts and automatically streams the documents and professional information that is posted on JD Supra into a Facebook profile.

Any Facebook friend able to view your profile will be able to see your documents. Additionally, each time a newly posted document streams from JD Supra to Facebook, it appears in your activity “news feed.” JDSupra enables lawyers, law firms, and legal professionals to publish documents online. In order to use this application, you must first be publishing documents on JD Supra. You can join now and sign up here.