Australian court upholds service by Facebook.
The Facebook profiles showed the defendants' dates of birth, email addresses and friend lists – and the co-defendants were friends with one another."This information was enough to satisfy the court that Facebook was a sufficient method of communicating with the defendants."
The court decided Facebook was a legally viable way to communicate.
But, in granting permission to use the social networking site, the judge stipulated that the papers be sent via a private email so that other people visiting the page could not read their contents.
Courts have previously allowed judgements to be delivered by email, but it is not known if Facebook or other social networking sites have been used in the same way.