Friending a Florida judge on Facebook is okay as long as you’re not an attorney. So says the state’s Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee, which ruled last month it’s better that justices and lawyers not give the wrong impression of being virtual friends on the Internet, lest people suspect them of impropriety. “The committee believes that listing lawyers who may appear before the judge as ‘friends’ on a judge's social networking page reasonably conveys to others the impression that these lawyer ‘friends’ are in a special position to influence the judge,” reads the opinion. The ruling comes despite the fact that most judges in Florida don’t have Facebook pages, according to The Palm Beach Post.