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Monday 21 February 2011

Spanish Nun Kicked Out Of Convent For Using Facebook Too Much -

Spanish Nun Kicked Out Of Convent For Using Facebook Too Much -


Facebook gets people in trouble all the time. From ending relationships to derailing careers, the most popular social network in the world is a place where using caution is paramount.
But for one Spanish nun, not even her good deeds were enough to keep her from getting kicked out of her convent because of Facebook.
María Jesús Galán, known as "Sor Internet" or "Sister Internet", told a Spanish newspaper she was asked to leave her convent because she was on Facebook too much.
The 54-year-old Dominican nun spent 34 years at the convent and spearheaded the effort to modernize its archives. She painstakingly transferred the ancient texts to computer and won a local government award in 2008 for her work, The Telegraph in London reported.
Galán said that jealousy from a few of the nuns came to pass and that, in the end, they won, Spain's El País reported on its website. But she told the paper that she didn't want to elaborate further. "Everything has already happened and its not worth it to dwell on the injury," she said in Spanish.


Read more: http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2011/02/21/sister-internet-maria-jesus-galan-kicked-convent-using-facebook/#ixzz1EdwkAOQK

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