This morning's trawl of the social media web came up with this Interesting article on the increasing use of social media sites as evidence in courts. Despite many folk protesting that the scribblings of members us private and therefore protected, increasingly such objections are being overruled by judges.

I guess that the moral of this story is be very careful what you post. Google+ appears to have factored this into their design by allowing you much more control over who sees what on your pages than rival Facebook with the clever use of their circles concept. Perhaps this is the answer, but a note of caution; do you really trust those in your closest circles not to fall out with you and reveal all? Choose wisely when populating yours...


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