FB is 10: Facebook fails


THE next time you post a status or a reply on Facebook, make sure you have thought your post through before getting it out there in cyberspace.

Because once the Enter key is pressed, your posts are digitally archived and cannot be deleted (especially if someone has taken a screen capture of the post). These posts can change lives (dramatically in some cases) as some people have learned ... the hard way.

1. Anton Casey, a British expat in Singapore, posted a picture of his son in the MRT with the caption "Daddy, where is your car & who are all these poor people?." His next post was that of his Porsche with the caption "Normal service can resume, once I have washed the stench of public transport off me." After an uproar that caused him to lose his job and receive a few death threats in the bargain, Casey fled to Australia with his family. There is no record as to how comfortable he was on his flight.

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