Don't forget to keep updating your Facebook!

There are plenty of practical reasons to be on Facebook. Organizing events, sharing pictures, and catching up with old acquaintances become infinitely easier. But there were online services available before Facebook that did all that.

The service Facebook really provides is allowing us to indulge our voyeuristic tendencies. Who doesn't enjoy exploring an old friend's photos, or seeing who an old girlfriend is dating?

Of course in order for that to work, people would have to be equally willing to open up their own lives for people to peruse. I hadn't really thought about that half of the equation until reading this in today's STAR.  

Ashleigh Pechaluk, 24, is on trial in Ontario Superior Court for first-degree murder in the October 2006 death of Dennis Hoy. The Crown alleges she conspired with her lover, Nicola Puddicombe, 36, to kill Hoy as he lay in Puddicombe's bed because she believed he stood in the way of their romance.

Hoy, 36, was Puddicombe's boyfriend of 11 years at the time. She will also be tried for first-degree murder in Hoy's death after Pechaluk's trial is over.



(Taken from www.thestar.ca )

You can read the rest of the article here.

So what does this have to do with Facebook?

Well, it seems like Ms. Puddicombe, who will be on trial for first-degree murder in a few months, still maintains an active (and open) Facebook page.

http://www.facebook.com/people/Nicola-D-Puddicombe/638805365

How else would I know that her favourite books are Catch-22, and the Stone Angel, or that she likes CSI (but not the Miami version)?

More importantly, it's how one would find out that she's "interested in both men and women" and her relationship status is "It's Complicated..."

No kidding.



(Taken from Ms. Puddicombe's Facebook page.)