10 Unbelievable Facebook Stories

Faking sick usually means avoiding public places. These days that includes the Internet. A Quebec woman on long-term sick leave lost her benefits after she posted Facebook photos of herself frolicking on a beach. A year and a half ago Nathalie Blanchard was diagnosed with depression and granted leave from her job at IBM in Bromont, Que. The Manulife insurance company had been sending her monthly sick-leave benefits, but ceased payment when they found Blanchard’s photos on the social networking site. Manulife reportedly said the pictures Blanchard posted to her private Facebook account prove she was no longer depressed. One showed her having fun at a Chippendales show, another at her birthday party and a third on a beach holiday.

The woman said she had told Manulife about the trip and that the pictures did not prove that her overall mood had improved. Although the insurance company confirmed that it uses Facebook to investigate clients, it also said they would not withdraw benefits simply based on that site.

The groom who updated Facebook at the altar during his wedding

At nearly every wedding, there’s that picture-perfect moment when the couple seals the nuptials with a kiss. This moment is usually preceded by vows of love and obey. However, Software developer, Dana Hanna of Abingdon, Md., took the time to whip out his cellphone and update his relationship status on Facebook and peck out a Tweet, declaring he had just been married. (He also handed a cellphone over to his wife to do the same.)
Hanna explains on YouTube that he did it for laughs. “This was just done to be funny — we really don’t Facebook THAT often.),” he wrote on YouTube. He tweetted: “Standing at the altar with @TracyPage where just a second ago, she became my wife! Gotta go, time to kiss my bride. #weddingday”. Hanna also updated his Facebook relationship status to ‘married’ during the ceremony.

The husband who dumped his wife by Facebook

Emma Brady, a 35-year-old conference organizer, only found out that her 6 year marriage was over after her husband posted a message on the social networking site. It read: “Neil Brady has ended his marriage to Emma Brady.” The surprised woman said she was not aware of her husband’smessage , until she received a call from her best friend in Denmark, checking if she was all right. To make matters worse, she discovered someone else had commented on the site that her husband was ‘better off out of it’.

Later on, Mrs Brady spoke about her hurt and embarrassment that the end of her marriage had been plastered across the Internet, allegedly before her husband had informed her. Neil Brady, who is now living with his mother, insists he had talked to his wife about separation.
‘I’d had enough of her’, he said.

The teenager who walked away from assault charges thanks to a Facebook alibi

Where’s my pancakes, read Rodney Bradford’s Facebook page, in a message typed on Saturday, Oct. 17, at 11:49 a.m., from a computer in his father’s apartment in Harlem. At the time, the sentence, written in indecipherable street slang, was just another navel-gazing, cryptic Facebook status update — words that were gobbledygook to anyone besides Mr. Bradford. But when Mr. Bradford, a skinny, short 19-year-old resident of the Farragut Houses, was arrested the next day as a suspect in a robbery, the words took on a level of importance that no one in their wildest dreams — least of all Mr. Bradford — could have imagined. They became his alibi.

His defense lawyer, Robert Reuland, told a Brooklyn assistant district attorney, Lindsay Gerdes, about the Facebook entry, which was made at the time of the robbery. The district attorney subpoenaed Facebook to verifythat the status update had actually been typed from a computer located at 71 West 118th Street in Harlem, as Mr. Bradford said. When that was confirmed, the charges were dropped.
The kidnapped kid who found his family after 22 years with help from Facebook

An Italian child allegedly kidnapped by his father, when he was five years-old, has resurfaced in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, after 22 years living under a different name. Alex Anfuso reappeared via the internet social networking site Facebook looking for his Italian relatives. “My name is Alex. I am looking for my family. I am looking for my mother”, wrote Alex Anfuso on Facebook, in a bid to find his relatives.

On March 17th 1987, five year-old child Alex Anfuso’s father reportedly asked a friend to kidnap his own child from Guidonia, a town on the outskirts of Rome, and to bring him to Egypt, where he lived. At the time of the kidnapping, the child’s mother, Silvana Anfuso, was in Rome’s Rebibbia prison jailed in relation to drug-related crimes. Alex was picked up and driven away. He was given a new hairstyle, new clothes and taken to Cairo.
Alex -who does not have an Egyptian birth certificate or residency in Egypt – is now 28 years old. After all these years, he has decided to look for his Italian relatives by searching on Facebook for anyone with the last name ‘Anfuso’.

He sent a message to many people, including Pino Anfuso, a TV technician who works for state broadcaster RAI in the southern city of Reggio Calabria. Although Pino Anfuso is not Alex’s relative, he decided to share the story with the popular TV show “Chi l’ha visto” or “Who has seen them?” and Alex went on air to tell his story. Unfortunately, he found out that his mother Silvana had died.
The boy who set a Facebook poll saying “If I get 1,000,000 I will get the 150 Pokemon tattooed on my back!” He had to hide himself after failing to keep his promise.

A young Ecuadorian decided to open a group in Facebook under the name of ¨ If I get 1.000.000, I , José Romero, will tattoo the 151 Pokemon on my back “. What the boy was not imagining wasthat the challenge was going to attract the attention of thousands of people around the world, who would support him in his exploit. Such was the enthusiasm of the people inspired by the act of the young man, that after 24 hours, 50,000 people had already joined the group. The boy, seeingthat the number of followers kept growing, decided to suppress his profile so that nobody could find his whereabouts.

The users of the group decided to open a call to find the whereabouts of this young man, since they wanted to give him a drubbing for his prank and his absence of word. So far, more than 600.000 followers has joined the space.
The couple – with the same full name- that got married after meeting through Facebook

It’s not too unusual to hear stories of married couples who met online. But it IS unusual when that couple also has the same name. In this case, a guy from Texas named Kelly Hildebrandt and a girl from Florida named Kelly Hildebrandt are about to get married. Kelly Hildebrandt met Kelly Hildebrandt when Kelly, the girl, looked up her own name on Facebook. “I was like, ‘I wonder if there’s any other Kelly Hildebrandts on Facebook, so, I searched my own name and he’s the only one that came up. And actually, in the picture, he didn’t have his shirt on, and I’m like, ‘oh, he’s cute!’” And the Kelly in Texas was also intrigued. “She started off, ‘Hey, I see we have the same name, and I thought it was kinda cool, so I wanted to say hi, I guess’ ” he said… 8 months after that innocent Facebookmessage, Kelly proposed to Kelly, and pretty soon they’ll become Kelly Hildebrandt squared.
The thirteen year old girl who met a man on Facebook, had sex with him and then hid him in her closet

A woman called the police after stumbling onto a surprise crouching in her teenage daughter’s bedroom closet — a 19-year-old man. The woman’s 13-year-old daughter admitted she’d had sex with the man after meeting him on Facebook. The girl said he’d been hiding in her closet since at least 2 days, Detroit Police John Roach said. The mother called the police after she found the man in the closet, and was able to keep him at the house until officers arrived. The man was arrested and is in custody awaiting possible criminal sexual conduct charges.The police have submitted a warrant request to the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office.

The bride-to-be who cancelled the wedding after spotting her fiancée embracing another woman on Facebook

A furious fiancée dumped her boyfriend after catching him fondling another girl’s boobs on Facebook, just days before their wedding. The angry fiancée, named Valeria A. by the Italian media, plastered posters all over Rome, when she saw snaps of her husband-to-be, identified as Antonio M. by the Italian media, embracing another woman on the social networking website. A picture – taken from Antonio’s Facebook profile – shows him nestling his head between a girl’s naked boobs.

“Thank goodness there’s Facebook! At least I’ve discovered you’re a traitor pig before the wedding! Signed, your former betrothed bride and the 548 guests of our wedding,” wrote Valeria, 28.