Sneak finds IT a depressing game sometimes. It's all those damn dot-com success stories. Now it seems that part of Facebook is being snapped up by the world's favourite software company (c Microsoft) for anywhere between three and five million big ones. It could have all been so different for Sneak if only my ideas weren't all utterly useless and doomed to fail. That said, FB hasn't done too badly for itself.

So it was with more than a little mirth that Sneak read Facebook is also in a bit of trouble wiv da law. Apparently the social networking site for people too lazy and/or socially inept to have a real social life, is failing to vet users carefully enough. Sexual predators are apparently roaming its pages searching for young innocents to groom – and we don't mean give them a shave and a facial. While we're at it, can we keep employers off Facebook too? Sneak has been unable to find gainful employment ever since details of a particularly big Friday night out in Newcastle were posted...