SHOULD HAVE STUCK TO SCRABBLE:

Facebook: It’s Bad News for Bigamists (Mar. 28 2011, Forbes)

Richard Leon Barton Jr., who I knew right away was in trouble because the report used all three of his names, was charged with polygamy recently after his first wife learned he had another one and reported him to the police. She had become suspicious after he “de-friended” her on Facebook — de-friending a significant other is rarely going to turn out well — and a few months later a Facebook search turned up pictures of him getting married to somebody else. At that point, she said, “I put two and two together.”

Barton, at least, had not posted these pictures himself, which makes him one IQ point smarter than the Australian guy who personally sent his second-wedding photos to his local newspaper, despite the fact that his current wife lived in the same town.

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