Don’t post your Atlanta DUI on Facebook

We know you’ve just been through a horrible ordeal and may have the urge to find commiseration, but do not, ever, ever, ever post about your run in with a cop on Facebook. In case you’ve missed some of my other posts about this: Metro Atlanta police and prosecutors use Facebook. They use it daily to catch defendants doing stupid things; to show a habit of drinking and partying. A habit of bad decisions. Or just to document any of those things. Once on Facebook, it is there until you take it down. You know you need to clean up your photos- but what about bad-idea posts? Yep, they are floating around still too. It used to be pretty hard to find and erase old posts on Facebook—until now.

If you have ever, ever posted something indelicate (who hasn’t?), or a photo of yourself doing bad things with people with whom you no longer associate, you can now go back and erase it. Yes, I know these things may be so old they aren’t really showing up in your profile any more, but trust me, they are still there. So go in there NOW and erase them. You never want to incriminate yourself. Go to Facebook now, activate your timeline and get deleting. This excellent article from Slate tells you how.

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