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A New Purpose for Facebook

It seems like Facebook is everywhere recently and everyday it seems like people are finding more and more interesting ways to use the social networking site.

I was intrigued when I read that a police department in California is thinking about putting the pictures of people arrested for DUI on the department’s Facebook page. Not such a bad idea, I guess, although I’m not quite sure what the purpose serves rather than to embarrass the offenders, which maybe is the purpose.

As I continued to read the article, I was surprised to see that this has actually been done in several police departments across the country, including in New Jersey and Hawaii.

I think police departments would better serve the public if they posted pictures of convicted (not suspected but convicted) rapists on their Facebook pages. Then that raises the question: should departments post the pictures of registered sex offenders? I’m sure this will all play out in the world of social media.