And finally…

Facebook has been used to repossess an Australian couple’s home in a legal first. A lawyer used the social networking site to serve legal documents on the couple who had defaulted on their mortgage and a supreme court has ruled that court notices served on the site were binding. After several unsuccessful attempts to track the couple down with conventional means, a lawyer convinced the judge that Facebook was a sufficient method of communicating with the defendants. They now have seven days to respond to the papers.