Despite recent reports that Facebook may be losing users in the United States, it remains an epic phenomenon. According to “Why Facebook Is Losing U.S. Users,” a June 14 article on PCMag.com, the consensus is that Facebook has around 150 million users in the United States — about half of the country’s population.
Facebook, and other social media sites such as MySpace and Twitter, allow users to express themselves and share information. In personal injury and employment suits, disclosure of plaintiffs’ personal information can impact the litigation dramatically. Not surprisingly, plaintiffs’ privacy rights are colliding with the broad parameters of discovery on what I call the Facebook frontier.
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