Honey It's all on the Net

Berlin: From the German town that unwittingly advertised pornography on its website to the American who interrupted his wedding to update his Facebook and Twitter accounts, the world was full of weird stories in 2009.

"Standing at the alter with @TracyPage where just a second ago she became my wife! Gotta go, time to kiss the bride" is how Dana Hanna kept the world posted between "I do" and that kiss.

Cartoon character Marge Simpson made it on the cover of Playboy magazine, Two White House gate-crashers celebrated their triumph on Facebook, and the world was fooled into believing a six-year-old boy was caught in a runaway home-made helium balloon.

Expanding networks

This, while Dutch lawmakers were told off for tweeting in parliament and in Canada an MP had to apologise for insulting a rival on Twitter.

"The new technologies that help us multi-task in our everyday lives and increasingly popular social media sites present a hard-to-resist challenge," Robert Darbelnet, a US motor club head said a fitting description for the whole year.