When a sculpture of a deer on DePauw University’s campus was vandalized, in October 2005, administrators got a tip that they would find the perpetrators by looking at postings on Facebook.
The Indiana university eventually identified and disciplined several students for defacing the sculpture. DePauw would probably not have found them without using the social-networking Web site, says James L. Lincoln, vice president for student services.
But is Facebook a law-enforcement tool?