Hospital Staff Suspended Over 'Lying Down Game'

1,000-plus fans follow 'rude' posts by UK man

(NEWSER) - A prisoner in the UK who flew the coop in September isn’t keeping a low profile—instead, he’s got one on Facebook. Craig “Lazie” Lynch has been posting photos of himself flipping the bird at police as he sends messages to more than a thousand supporters, the Daily Mail reports. “I beat their f---n system and i love it,” he told fans. “I love you all.” Lynch was near the end of a 7-year term for burglary when he escaped. More»

Worker claims company spied on her

(NEWSER) - Hint to employees: If you say you're sick, don’t use Facebook. A Swiss woman was fired for doing just that, the BBC reports. She claimed her migraine prevented her from working on her computer and asked to lie in a darkened room—where she accessed Facebook through her iPhone. She asserted her innocence, and accused the company of creating a fake Facebook account to spy on her. More»

UK government weighs monitoring social sites for security threats

(NEWSER) - The British government wants to keep an eye on what people are doing on Facebook. On the lookout for terrorist plots, the Home Office has provoked an outcry from civil libertarians by floating a plan to track users of social networking sites, which were previously free of government monitoring, reports the Independent. The plan “would turn millions of innocent Britons into permanent suspects,” said one privacy advocate. More»

(NEWSER) - A British neuroscientist thinks the children of today, exposed to “instant new screen images flashing up with the press of a key,” will develop differently from past generations, and that’s not a good thing. Facebook, for instance provides an experience “devoid of cohesive narrative and long-term significance,” Lady Greenfield tells the Guardian. “The mid-21st-century mind might almost be infantilized.” More»

'No stress just rest,' UK convict posts while serving life sentence

(NEWSER) - A murder convict jailed for life is enjoying his “holiday” behind bars—and shares the news on his Facebook page. His British prison is “a place where men can come for a nice relaxin break from their moanin women and crying kids. No stress just rest,” wrote Ashley Graham. Officials say inmates aren’t allowed to use the Web, but the 27-year-old managed to post updates and pictures of himself in the slammer, the Sun reports. More»