Amazing as it seems, Australian lawyers have used the social networking platform Facebook in order to serve legal papers to a couple. Why did they do that? They repeatedly failed to contact them in person and chose this path to address them. In a decision of its own kind, the Australian courts allowed the online delivery of legal papers via Facebook platform to the couple, who defaulted on a loan, after seeing that the profiles found by lawyers did belong to the defendant couple. The lawyers who did this belong to the Canberra-based law firm Meyer Vandenburg, and they've managed to convince the judge of Australian Supreme Court in Canberra to use Facebook in such a manner.

Marc McCormack, one of the lawyers, said that he couldn't find the defendants personally after many attempts, so he and his colleagues thought of finding them on Facebook. The lawyer further avowed that the Facebook pages of the defendants appeared, after his team carried out an intense public search based on the email addresses of the couple in question, Gordon Poyser and Carmel Rita Corbo. They failed to pay instalments on a £44,000 loan they had obtained from MKM Capital, a mortgage provider firm.

McCormack also said that they didn't respond to emails from the law firm and also ignored the court appearance on the 3^rd of October. The lawyer saw that the people online listed their birth dates, full names and also listed each other as friends, and that seems to have convinced the judge to let McCormack serve the legal papers this way. It is the first time Facebook has been used for such a purpose, but it won't surely be the last.