A 29 year old woman in Quebec, Canada has been stripped of her disability insurance after her insurance company saw pictures she uploaded to popular social networking site, Facebook.

Nathalie Blanchard of Montreal has been on disability leave from her job at IBM for nearly two years since she was diagnosed with major depression.

But she stopped receiving disability payments in the mail after her insurance company saw photos on her Facebook profile showing her smiling and having a good time, because of those photos, her insurer told Nathalie she was OK to return to work since she didn't appear to be depressed in the photos.

Nathalie Blanchard depends on her community of Facebook friends a lot these days.

In February 2008, she says, after ten years working at IBM her life started to unravel.

"I suffered anxiety attacks, and depression. i couldn't work any more," said Nathalie Blanchard, IBM Employee.

In fact, she says her doctor as well as the company's insurance psychiatrist ordered her to go on disability insurance. And that's what she's been living on until they cut her off last month. Blanchard says she phoned her insurance representative to find out why.

"She said she take my picture from my Facebook. And she said that I'm not sick," said Blanchard.

She says the representative referred to these pictures at a Chippendale event at a local bar as well as comments she made about climbing a local mountain.

Her lawyer is Tom Lavin, is preparing a suit against IBM as well as the insurance company.

"Because there are no precedents, its a free for all right now, and probably there are no rules or boundaries," said Lavin.

Lavin says the insurance company says its decision is based on a psychiatric reevaluation, though Blanchard has not met with the psychiatrist.

Still Insurance companies make no secret that Facebook has become a tool for investigation.

"we can not ignore it. whatever the source of the information is, we can not ignore it," said Claude Distasio, of Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association.

And so far the insurance company, according to Blanchard's lawyer, has not handed over its reevaluation report.

"I don't understand why I gave all my life to IBM to get what I get now," said Blanchard.

IBM has not commented on this case.