French embarrassment

French government ministers faced embarrassment yesterday from their own children whose entries on Facebook, were aired to the public.

French prime minister, François Fillon will be interested know that his son, Antoine, 22, is a member of several “high-brow” chat groups.

One, entitled “I am too proud of my poo,” boasts 93 members who spend entire nights digressing about the “16 different types of turd.”
Antoine Fillon, an economics student whose mother Penny is Welsh, is also part of the “legless friendship circle,” which includes 650 fellow binge drinkers.

Financial weekly magazine Capital, released photos of Antoine’s Facebook page in this week’s edition, including one of the young man snuggling up to two young ladies, and looking the worse for wear.

"Luckily the prime minister doesn’t have time to surf the web!” quipped Capital.

His “friends” - people authorised to converse with him via a secure network - include two brothers and a sister but also Alain Juppé, the former prime minister who resigned from Mr Fillon’s government after losing his parliamentary seat.

Facebook was founded three years ago by Mark Zuckerberg, 24, a Harvard college student looking for a better way for colleagues to communicate over the campus. The name of the site refers to the paper facebooks depicting American colleges members.

Today there are 39 million “facebookers” worldwide, including 155,000 in the France network, where the country’s “jeuness dorée (golden youth) swap stories and snaps from parties in Saint Tropez and luxury foreign trips.