Certainly most clients these days use emails, send texts use Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and any other form of social media available. If you are an injury client you need to be aware that you cannot expect any information you share on the internet in any format to remain private. Information posted on the internet can severely jeopardize your case and will be used by insurance companies and defense attorneys to try to hurt your case by showing that your testimony contradicts something you said on Facebook, i.e. to try and show that your injuries did not happen, or just to make you look bad.
Social Media has become a way of life for most people and is the primary source of information and communication between family, friends and business associates. The problem we are sometimes faced with is the fact that anything we post on any social media network can be fair game to anyone who can access it. So how does this affect your personal injury claim?
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