Your photos on Facebook can get you in trouble. A LOT of trouble. Two recent articles bring this truth vividly to life:

1) Depressed woman loses benefits over Facebook photos

A Quebec woman on long-term sick leave is fighting to have her benefits reinstated after her employer’s insurance company cut them, she says, because of photos posted on Facebook.

2) Facebook friend turns into Big Brother

University of Wisconsin-La Crosse student Adam Bauer has nearly 400 friends on Facebook. He got an offer for a new one about a month ago. “She was a good-looking girl. I usually don’t accept friends I don’t know, but I randomly accepted this one for some reason,” the 19-year-old said.

He thinks that led to his invitation to come down to the La Crosse police station, where an officer laid out photos from Facebook of Bauer holding a beer — and then ticketed him for underage drinking.

You can set your photos to be private to your friends. If you don’t do that, anyone can see them. And as the second article points out, if a friend invitation from an unknown person turns out to be a police officer working undercover, that privacy doesn’t matter.

See also: You Commit Three Felonies a Day

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