It’s a trend that could make life a little easier for managers and HR pros: folks breaking rules and bragging about it online.

Companies have caught workers’ comp cheats and employees who play hooky by finding the truth on the workers’ Facebook and MySpace pages.

And now, British police are trying do the same with an escaped convict.

Craig “Lazie” Lynch was serving a seven-year burglary sentence in a low-security prison near Suffolk, England. He escaped in the fall of 2009.

Shortly after, he started using his Facebook page to taunt police. He also offered info about his planned whereabouts, confident he’d remain a fugitive.

Facebook shut the page down after it attracted a number of followers.

Lynch was recently caught by police, tthe Times Online reports. Authorities had been working with Facebook to get information about where he’d been posting from.

Tags: convict, Facebook, social networking