Australian police served a court order on an alleged cyber bully using the social networking site Facebook, officials said, describing it as a national first.
Victoria police got court approval to use the site after attempts to serve the order in person, over the telephone or via the post failed.
The “prolific” Facebook user was accused of, among other things, using the site to harass, bully and threaten another person, and police said they transcribed all the court documents and sent them to his Facebook inbox.
A video was also made of the order being read “as if the Respondent was being directly spoken to” and sent electronically to him.
Australia has almost nine million Facebook users.
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