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...long after Patrick told his wife Tammie he wanted a divorce, she posted an angry, hurt note on "the wall," or public-comments section, of his Facebook page. Embarrassed that his colleagues, clients, church friends and family could see evidence of his marital woes, he deleted it and blocked his wife from seeing his page. A couple of days later, the IT worker in Florida--who asked that his last name not be used in this story - found alarmed messages from two Facebook friends in his inbox. Tammie had used a mutual friend's account to view Patrick's wall...
...advantage they have, and personal information on sites like Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn is like decoded bulletins from enemy territory. "It's now just routine for us to go over with clients whether they have an active presence on the Web and if they Twitter or have a MySpace page," says Joseph Cordell of Cordell & Cordell, a domestic-relations law firm with offices in 10 states. He advises his mostly male clients to scour their page - and their girlfriend's - for anything that could be used by their ex's legal team. Then Cordell studies the page of the soon...
...custody case where a mom assured the court that she hadn't been drinking," recalls the Missouri-based attorney. "But her MySpace page had actual dated photos of her drinking - and smoking, which is also of interest." In another case, a mom had listed herself on a dating site as single with no kids, which Cordell's firm used to cast doubt on her truthfulness...
...there can be some positives. Tammie's friends post supportive messages on her Facebook page. And Patrick says he understands online social networks better now. "It's like putting everybody you know in the same room. I'm using it, but I'm much more careful...
...struggling to compete with its domestic rivals, is the subject of a blistering and unprecedented wave of criticism by China's official media, which have singled it out as having far more links to pornographic websites than its competitors. Chinese authorities disabled some search functions on Google's China page late last week and ordered the company to block links to foreign websites. (Read about China's Internet-addiction camps...