Comments on: Judges friending lawyers on Facebook and social media: Florida’s clumsy overreaction

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Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:08:31 +0000

[...] Cross-post: Social media rules applying to lawyers and judges Jump to Comments I wrote a post over on SCOTXblog titled “Judges friending lawyers on Facebook and social media: Florida’s clumsy overreaction.” [...]

By: Christina Sutt

Christina Sutt — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:55:39 +0000

To answer the question in your footnote about why twitter lets you block followers... it's because of spammers who follow people. There are two reasons to block them

1) It falsely inflates your "following" numbers, and some people like to track how many real people are interested in them. (Useful for people who use social networking for business purposes, like authors and agents.) 2) Some fans of people follow that person's followers, because they think they have common interests, and the person being followed doesn't want to be seen as endorsing a spammer or whatnot, so they block them.

By: Kendall Gray

Kendall Gray — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:27:43 +0000

So . . . it's well accepted for a prominent lawyer to serve on a campaign committee and give or be responsible for tens of thousands of dollars in the campaign war chest . . . but . . . if you are Facebook Friends, then western civilization is placed at risk?

I wonder when we'll see Facebook and social networking records folded into a Caperton recusal motion. {{shaking head in disbelief}}