Facebook Court Order

http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-technology/australia-police-serve-court-order-via-facebook-20101020-16twp.html

The use of the Internet is an everyday occurrence for almost all Australians, and now the police are catching on.
In this news story, police in Victoria have performed an Australian first court order over the social networking site Facebook.
The person was accused of repeated cyber bullying and after multiple attempts at traditional methods of serving the order, such as mail and telephone, the police were granted by a court to serve him over this medium.
With over 9 million Facebook users in Australia alone it seems logical for police to move into this realm, but it could also be dangerous. A new form of social networking has become popular recently using the geotracking software that it standard with many modern day 3G phones. This allows the phones to function like a GPS and guide the users to their destination, but it also can be a social networking tool. Foursquare is a new social networking tool that users can 'check-in' to locations near them and also allowed their friends to know. Facebook has recently added their own version and alongside Google Latitude it is easy to see that social networking has embraced the geotracking function of smart phones. This could also mean a greater 'Big Brother' element, using the technologies that are so greatly embraced to monitor and locate.

With many police forces establishing Facebook and Twitter accounts to inform and educate us, it seems logical that they may soon use the other functions of social networking.