Survey: social media evidence soaring in court cases

Every week the media seems to offer a new account of some dumb crook who is off to the slammer because he posted about his caper on Facebook. It turns out this phenomenon may be even more widespread than we think. A new survey reports that social media played a significant role in nearly 700 cases in the past two years alone and that most of these involved either MySpace or Facebook. LinkedIn and Twitter were the next most common social media sites to produce evidence for the justice system. Only one case mentioned FourSquare. The report doesn’t mention Google+ at all. The trend does not appear to be abating.