Facebook seems to have contributed to countless broken love affairs, divorces, and insane levels of jealousy. People pry into your friend lists and updates until they sometimes reach conclusions far beyond reality. …
Read Original Story: Facebook status update saves man from jail – CNET News
The court has dropped robberycharges against RodneyBradford after a facebookstatus update was found to substantiate his alibi. "WHERE MY IHOP?" the Brooklyn teen wrote, one minute before the October 17th crime. …
Read Original Story: Crime Waves: 'Icing on the Cake' – New York Observer
(NECN: Ted mcenroe) – If you thought all those people updating their Facebook status were wasting their time – you clearly haven’t met RodneyBradford. The New York City teenager just had robberycharges against him dropped, because of a Facebook…
Read Original Story: Facebook alibi gets accused robber freed – NECN
myspace especially was considered the stomping ground of child predators. The case of the ‘MySpace Mom’ who was prosecuted (and ultimately acquitted) for creating a fake profile and using it to taunt a neighborhood girl who eventually committed suicide …
Read Original Story: Count 'Alibi Provider' Among Facebook's Many Tools – True/Slant
This is RodneyBradford. A few days ago, Facebook saved his 19-year-old life. Facebook and his status plea demanding the immediate consumption of the very basic food groups every human being needs to …
Read Original Story: Facebook Status Update Clears Teen From Criminal Charges – Gizmodo Australia
Facebookstatus updates are a great way to garner sympathy for your friends for that recent break-up, or to post what you had for your breakfast, or to broadcast to the world the state of your llamas in Farmtown, or to angstily paste in some …
Read Original Story: Facebook status update provides alibi for accused 19 year old – Geek.com
PARK SLOPE (WABC) — At the time the armed robbery in Brooklyn happened, RodneyBradford was 13 miles away at his father’s apartment in Harlem. Lucky for Rodney, he was also on Facebook. Little did he know that updating his status would …
Read Original Story: Facebook alibi gets teen out of jail – 7Online.com
We already know well the dangers of Facebook: not only can it get you robbed, but it can land you in jail, whether thanks to careless profile updating at the scene of the crime or a bout of unwise poking. Now it appears the upside is Facebook can keep …
Read Original Story: ALIBI: Facebook Status Update Saves Teen from Jail – Mashable (blog)
The message on RodneyBradford’s Facebook page, posted at 11:49 am on Oct. 17, asked where his pancakes were. The words were typed from a computer in his father’s apartment in Harlem. RodneyBradford used Facebook to provide an …
Read Original Story: I'm Innocent. Just Check My Status on Facebook. – New York Times
A Brooklyn teen’s hunger for pancakes — and his decision to share it with the Facebook world — kept him out of jail on a robbery rap. RodneyBradford, 19, was accused of the Oct. 17 late morning mugging at gunpoint two men in the Farragut Houses in …
Read Original Story: Facebook Post Saves Teen From Jail – NBC New York