Facebook is not only about reaping likes and shares, there are several other games being played on fb which have sent many people to jail.
Here are three stories that would make you grateful it did not happen to you
Lunch Lizards
Friend: Vanessa Starr Palm, 23, of Illinois, and Alexander Daniel Rust, 24, of Indiana
Story: While Palm and Rust were on vacation in the Bahamas in 2009, they saw a wild iguana. They killed it. And they cooked and ate it. And they took photos of the whole process and posted them on their Facebook profiles.
What happened to them: Iguanas are endangered species in the Bahamas. Someone contacted authorities about the photos, and Bahamian police tracked down and arrested the couple. They were released from jail on $500 bail and eventually paid fines for their illegal meal.
Unfriend
Friend: Dylan Osborn, 37, of Buckinghamshire, England
Story: Shortly after Osborn joined Facebook in 2007, a window appeared on screen asking if he wanted to send “friend requests” to everyone on his e-mail list. He clicked “Yes.” Result: A friend request went to his estranged wife, Claire Tarbox … with whom he was under court order to not have any contact.
What happened next: Tarbox called the police, and Osborn was arrested for sending this friend request and then sentenced by a judge to 10 days in jail. Osborn claimed that he hadn’t understood how Facebook works and had no idea the request would be sent to Tarbox. “I didn’t even know she had a Facebook account,” he told reporters after his release. “To be honest, I don’t think the judge understood how it works, either.”
The King and I
Friend: Fouad Mourtada, 26, of Casablanca, Morocco
Story: Mourtada joined Facebook sometime in 2007, under a fake name. Whose? Moulay Rachid, brother of Morocco’s King Mohammed VI, and second in line to the Moroccan throne.
What happened next: In February 2008, Mourtada was arrested. He confessed to having made the fake Facebook profile, explaining that he’d done it “to get girlfriends.” Mourtada was quickly tried, convicted of “modifying and falsifying information technology data and usurping an official’s identity,” and sentenced to three years in prison. A month later, after intense international pressure at what was viewed as an unfair trial, “Prince” Fouad Mourtada was released… after receiving a royal pardon.
This article was originally published in The Reader’s digest
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