Here’s a jingle: When you cheat /It’s not so neat/‘Cause in a beat/Facebook will recommend your first wife friend your second! Eh, I’ve never been great at rhyming. Perhaps Alan O’Neil would have thought twice about joining the social networking site while being married to two women at the same time if I had written this jingle just a few days earlier. Instead, he’s facing bigamy charges. You see, Facebook’s “People You May Know” feature busted his cover when it suggested his first wife “friend” his second. Wife number one clicked on number two’s profile and looked through her pictures to find Mr. O’Neil standing by a wedding cake which his other bride. Apparently, he had changed his name to Alan Fulk after marrying the second woman to avoid his past, and when he didn’t “sort out” the divorce, wife numero uno called the cops. Let this be a warning to other bigamists — Facebook is not a good idea for you. [Reuters]
