{"id":4784,"date":"2009-03-14T10:40:37","date_gmt":"2009-03-14T10:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/03\/14\/how-to-be-stupid-on-facebook\/"},"modified":"2009-03-14T10:40:37","modified_gmt":"2009-03-14T10:40:37","slug":"how-to-be-stupid-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/14\/how-to-be-stupid-on-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Be Stupid on Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re all stupid on facebook, but maybe this guy was extra stupid:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A man on trial in New York for possession of a weapon has been acquitted after subpoenaing his arresting officer&#8217;s Facebook and MySpace accounts. His defense: Officer Vaughan Ettienne&#8217;s MySpace &#8216;mood&#8217; was set to &#8216;devious&#8217; on the day of the arrest, and one day a few weeks before the trial, his Facebook status read &#8216;Vaughan is watching &#8220;Training Day&#8221; to brush up on proper police procedure.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>source: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=09\/03\/11\/2235202\">\/.<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve noticed that many of my Facebook friends have the proverbial hazy picture of themselves getting sloshed on umbrella drinks in questionable company.  This means, according to what I&#8217;ve heard, that their lives are ruined forever.  Especially in this economy, what with the <em>Bushession<\/em> in full swing and all.  Your employer is looking for any excuse to fire you.<\/p>\n<p>What I think is this: We should all get pictures (faked, in most cases, of course) of ourselves with umbrella drinks in a questionable setting and post them on Facebook.  To help our unfortunate friends.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re all stupid on facebook, but maybe this guy was extra stupid: &#8220;A man on trial in New York for possession of a weapon has been acquitted after subpoenaing his arresting officer&#8217;s Facebook and MySpace accounts. His defense: Officer Vaughan Ettienne&#8217;s MySpace &#8216;mood&#8217; was set to &#8216;devious&#8217; on the day of the arrest, and one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/14\/how-to-be-stupid-on-facebook\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How To Be Stupid on Facebook<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1fa","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4784"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}