When will people realise that what they post on the Internet is visible to all, and most likely will be found by people who you really do not want to see it?
The latest example of someone making an Internet post they wish they hadn’t came when twenty year old Hadley Jons, from Detroit, posted a comment on her Facebook profile about she believed the defendant in the trial that she was a jury member of was guilty – before the trial had actually finished.
Naturally, as any good defence lawyer does these days, every member of the jury was researched online. Defence lawyer Saleema Sheikh was delighted when her son Jaxon, who works with her at her office, discovered the comment made by one of the jury members about her client.
The indiscretion was pointed out to the judge, Diane Druzinski, who promptly removed the juror and warned her that she could be charged with (more…)







Moggy bothering Royal Bank of Scotland employee Mary Bale hit the headlines this week.
If you were to ask me the same question, I would convincingly argue that the most plentiful substance was stupidity. It’s everywhere you look. There was a time when only buffoonery on a national or international scale would be deemed worthy of a headline. However, as the Internet has become more pervasive, so has our awareness of the dunderheads that walk amongst us. Facebook can sometimes be the perfect showcase for such people. For example, take the recent case of a teenage mother in Florida, who thought that it would be a jolly wheeze to post pictures of her 11 month old son playing with a
Google’s ass is grass, and a former model who wants to take the search giant to court in an effort to unmask online bullies is a lawn mower.
X-Factor pantomime nasty Simon Cowell is a very shrewd man. In recent years, he’s extended his python-like stranglehold on the music business to our TV screens, not only here in the UK, but also in the US where it’s famously difficult for Brits to get a toehold in show business.
There’s a marketing phrase that’s almost as old as the industry itself: ‘All news is good news.’ You see it in movies, with CEOs of huge corporations laughing gleefully over the free advertising some scandal has netted their company. On the Internet, though, not all news is good news. Bad news is, sadly, bad news… often very bad news.