About 24 hours after photos of the kiss spread through emails, instant messages and blogs, the Toronto Star and CBC reports that the bride and groom in the photo Australian Scott Jones Canadian bartender and college student Alex Thomas, who was injured just before the photo was taken.

In the era of Facebook and Twitter, it was just a matter of time before the world learned the identity of the couple kissing in the picture now iconic Vancouver riots.

The newspapers report that Jones and Thomas have been dating since Jones came to Vancouver in a  working holiday. Attended Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final, which the Canucks lost 4-0 to the city of Boston Bruins, and then somehow were among the angry protesters and riot police charge later that night in downtown Vancouver.

So how is Thomas Jones and eventually identified as the probable , make love, not war  couple shameful Vancouver the night of the injury and destruction?

You probably will not surprise you that Facebook was involved.

Despite Scott's sister Hannah was first identified by his brother to a news network in Australia, things really started to take off when Brett Jones, Scott's father, issued the following update on his Facebook profile on Friday the morning from his family home in Perth, Australia.

Brett Jones now says that the couple is being besieged by media requests from media around the world. Everyone, of course, are interested u200b u200ben know the circumstances that is the couple kissing as cars were burned and windows were shattered around him.

But despite some of our initial hypotheses, the kiss seen round the world was not the product of a riot of fuel, the uncontrollable passion. Brett Jones instead states that Thomas was injured and his son was coming to their aid. An alternative angle shot from above shows other bystanders after trying to help Thomas and Jones.

Combine that with the story angle Brett Jones , and certainly dispels rumors that the couple had intentionally organized the photo.

Mother Jones , said Marie, who immediately knew it was her son in the picture because  not have a lot of clothes with him and he always puts the same thing.

So where do we go from here? The good news is that Jones escaped unhurt from the incident and Thomas suffered only bruised leg. The bad news is that Jones is scheduled to leave Canada before and return home to Australia after a trip to California. The family of Thomas Jones says he plans to visit California with her son, but the couple's future is uncertain after that.