Maybe if you have a crime planned, you could use facebook to setup your alibi:
Facebook alibi: charges dropped thanks to status update
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A 19-year old man in search of some pancakes has Facebook to thank for criminal charges being dropped against him.
Rodney Bradford was arrested on October 18 as a suspect in a gun-point mugging in New York, but a Facebook entry he made the previous day asking for pancakes became his alibi, The New York Times reported.
Bradford's lawyer told a Brooklyn assistant district attorney involved in the case about the Facebook entry, which read “Where's my pancakes”.
Because the timing of the post coincided with the time the crime was committed and Facebook verified the Harlem address where the status update was made, the charges were dropped.
While Facebook entries have been used to establish guilt in criminal cases and employment cases, this is the first known time one has been used to assert innocence, legal experts say....
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