Facebook -- the greatest news source EVER

What do you think is the photo lead story on Australia's Sydney Morning Herald website as at 11.35am on a Friday? Stupid question really considering you can see it.

That's right my fellow hedgehog balls of fury,
Facebook leads to jealousy. You doth protest though, "it's a leading national newspaper", of course this has serious implications for all Australians.

Look I am not here to douse the claims that:

"All this friending, poking and picture-posting on Facebook can get you in trouble with your significant other. "

Heavens no. What about this snippet:

"Jealous types now have to deal with brand-new kinds of provocations, such as a comment on their partner's wall from a possible romantic rival, or their loved ones getting tagged - identified - in a picture from an old relationship. Boyfriends and girlfriends can view all of this on their partners' walls."

Oh Facebook, what ever will you do next? Well how about this little number:

"It seems like Facebook is creating jealousy even where there was not jealousy to begin with," claims Amy Muise, a doctoral candidate at the University of Guelph's psychology department who led a recent study on how Facebook can spark jealousy in romantic relationships among college students.

WHOAAAAAAAAAAA back up there. FB is causing jealousy? If only I had a cane that I could rap over FB's knuckles although the very next paragraph eases my mine.

She said Facebook doesn't necessarily make people more jealous than they would be normally. But all the information divulged on Facebook - those answers to "What's on your mind?" and reactions to those posts - can increase "triggers" for jealousy.

Oh, so you only trigger jealousy. Of course. Well lucky then we hedgehogs don't get jealous?

But to finish it all off there is this little number:

Laney Cohen, a 24-year-old who works in public relations in New York City, has a longtime boyfriend now in law school in Florida. She began noticing last year that her boyfriend was being tagged in photographs with a female friend who "kind of rubs me the wrong way." One picture in particular upset her: The pair were in a bar, and the woman was looking up at Cohen's boyfriend.

"I felt that it was a very couple-y picture to be in, and I freaked out and I called him and said, `This is disrespectful to me and our relationship. What if people start asking questions about why you're always hanging out with her?'" Cohen recalled.

The answer was simple for Laney:

"He's either untagging photos or not showing up in the photos anymore," she said. "Either way is fine."

Awesome.

NOTE: Just so you know, every day I am hoping to scour the leading newspapers to work out how many stories are about Facebook/Twitter and just how important they are ranked on news websites.

FYI: News.com.au led with a 22-year-old London girl, with a prosthetic arm, who sued a store she was working for because they sacked her because they made her work out the back in the store room because she didn't fit the "look" of the store despite hiring her with full knowledge of her disability. She was paid $15,400 for "injury to her feelings" and $269 for "wrongful dismissal".