(Jim Hock) -- Add one more reason to love Facebook. Now it’s even recognized in official court proceedings in Australia as a way to get to scofflaws. A story today in the Telegraph reports that a judge in the country was persuaded by a mortgage company’s lawyers to allow them to serve documents over the Internet – via Facebook – to a couple after repeatedly failing to serve papers to them in person.
The paper reports that the lawyer came up with the Facebook plan after it became clear that a couple did not want to be found after they failed to keep up repayments on a $150,000 (£44,000) loan they had borrowed from a mortgage provider.
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