If ever there was a case for reinforcing the need for Facebook's privacy settings this is it - a wife found out her husband's a bigamist via the social networking site.

Lynn France had her suspicions that her husband, with whom she has two children, was having an affair. He took an apparent business trip to China, but left his passport at home. Another time he left on a trip and left the web site of the hotel he was staying at on his computer. She followed him there and confronted him with another woman.

When caught her husband promised to end the affair but it seems he was being less than honest. Acting on the advice of a friend she typed the other woman's name into Facebook and saw photos of her getting married to her current husband.

"I was numb with shock, to tell you the truth," France told AP.

"There was like an album of 200 pictures on there. Their whole wedding."

To add insult to injury the groom was dressed as Prince Charming at the Walt Disney World wedding.

"People who engage in these sorts of behaviours now have the option of trying to keep things private or turning it into a spectacle and becoming their own reality show," said lawyer Andrew Zashin, a child custody expert who is representing Lynn France.

"In this case, it seems, the spouse may have crossed the line and gotten married while he was still married."

There's good reason to check your privacy settings and Sleuth happily admits to checking his one more time after reading this bit of news.

06 Aug 2010