Subtitle: Just another reason why all those Facebook apps are a bad idea.

From the AP:

A court in Australia has approved the use of Facebook, a popular social networking Web site, to notify a couple that they lost their home after defaulting on a loan.

The Australian Capital Territory Supreme Court last Friday approved lawyer Mark McCormack’s application to use Facebook to serve the legally binding documents after several failed attempts to contact the couple at the house and by e-mail.

Sure, it starts innocently enough. Good karma here, a high five request there. Maybe a little Scrabulous here and there after dinner - you can quit anytime you want.

Next stop? Foreclosure.

It’s a dangerous path, my friend. A dangerous path.

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