Have Any of Your Facebook Friends Been Arrested?

Arrestly, which debuted in beta earlier this week, allows Facebook users to choose five people to monitor, free-of-charge, and should any of those people get hauled to the hoosegow, users are alerted via email and text message.

Of course, way less than one percent of Facebook’s population gets arrested, and that comes right from Arrestly’s Chief Executive Officer Matt Steckler. Last year, 15 million people were arrested in the U.S.

We’d asked him why he sees a market for such an application given the tiny proportion of social networkers actually get cuffed.