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Social Networking
Social networking (aka “social media”) is taking over the world. Just look at the latest statistics:
- Facebook alone has more than 500 million users (and growing by the second);
- Fifty percent of its active users log on to Facebook in any given day;
- The average user has 130 friends. (Source: http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics).
- If Facebook were a country, it would be the third most populated. (Source: http://www.techxav.com/2010/03/19/if-facebook-were-a-country/).
That is just Facebook, but there are many more social-networking sites, for example, Twitter, LinkedIn, MySpace, YouTube and blog.com, and this list is not all-inclusive.
Not only is social networking taking over how we live, work, communicate and “socialize,” it is changing how lawyers litigate and practice law. What is no surprise is that, as usual, technology and society are light years ahead of the legal world. Many lawyers lack the knowledge and guidance on the discoverability and use of social-networking content in civil litigation and at the workplace. Following is a short discussion of the use of social networking in the work place and the courtroom.
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