Ever since social media took over the internet, a lot of people have posted lots and lots of junks which have either tarnished their image or have landed them into trouble. I have come to notice that a lot of people now use social media to gain cheap popularity and due to this fact, everyone is striving hard to make sure he comes into limelight by all means.

Here are a few people who landed in jail by just updating their social media account with the wrong status.

1. 19 year old mother

After posting a picture of her 11 months old son smoking a bong pipe on Facebook, 19 year old mother from Jacksonville in Florida was arrested and investigated. Although the investigation revealed that no drug was present in the bong pipe, she was however fined and for drug paraphernalia and an evaluation was conducted on her to ascertain her ability to parent a child.

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2. Mark Byron

Mark Byron and his wife were going through a not-so-amicable divorce when he took to his Facebook page to rant about it and also insult his wife. His wife used the Facebook as evidence against him in the court. The judge told Mark to go back to his Facebook page and publicly apologize repeatedly to his wife if he wanted to escape a jail term. The Facebook post also helped his wife to get the custody of the kids.

3. Middle school girls

In 2011, six middle school girls were arrested for creating an event on Facebook titled, “Attack A Teacher A Day.” Not only that, they went ahead to invite 100 participants who made violent comments about specific teachers. The six girls were arrested even after claiming it was just a joke and were detained for some hours before being released to face a five day suspension from the school.

4. George Zimmerman

In 2013, George Zimmerman was reported to have made a second-degree murder and manslaughter case against a 17 year old male in Florida. George was acquitted for the Facebook post. It was also reported that a 15 year old registered online as Mark also took to his Twitter handle to make a threat about carrying out mass murder and getting away with it if Zimmerman was released. Luckily for him, the police men in charge of his were lenient enough to let him go after investigation.

5. Joseph Bernard Campbell

In July 2011, it was reported that Joseph Bernard Campbell said he would plead guilty to charges of cyberstalking and unauthorized access to a computer. Unluckily for him, at the moment of making that update on his Facebook page, at least 19 women were victimized by a computer hacker who broke into their email accounts, captured risqué photographs of the women and replaced them for the women’s display picture on Facebook.

6. Luis Vela

This 20 year old student from New Jersey was arrested for making an online threat to shoot all his classmates. Although he had made the post under the anonymous name “Yik Yak”, he was traced as the source. He faced trial in 2014 for harassment and assault and his bail was set at $500, 000 only on the condition of psychiatric evaluation.

7. A 14 year old girl went as far as tweeting the official Twitter account of American Airlines that she is a part of Al Qaida group and that she was ready to do something big. The airline was generous enough to let her know that her IP address has been identified and that they will send it to the FBI. She however retracted her comments and apologized many times.

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8. Timothy Bynum

London Eley from Philadelphia was reported have hired someone to kill her husband and father of her kids Corey White. This was what she posted; “I will pay somebody a stack to kill my baby father." 6ABC.com reported that a man named Timothy Bynum accepted the offer by writing "say no more," "what he look like?" and "need dat stack 1st," Corey alerted the authorities and both of the offenders were taken into custody in 2011. In August 2011, Corey was shot while Bynum and Eley were still in jail.

9. Mathew Woods

After making offensive comments on Facebook about two young girls who had disappeared, Mathew Woods from England was sentenced to three months in prison. It was reported that Wood, a 19 year old guy had jokingly said that he had the girls in his custody.

10. Two freinds from Britain

Two young friends from Britain were arrested after tweeting about destroying America. They were welcomed at the Los Angeles International Airport by the Homeland security agents. After series of interrogation, the security agents came to realize that “destroy” was a slang for “party”. The duo were sent back home the next day.

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Hmm tha num 10 has got me cracking

All nairalanders need to read this because Ignorance is not enough reason to contravene the Law

E get as number 8 be,person weh go die go die anyway