It's fair. When I was young, my parents would say, "don't put anything in writing, or say anything you wouldn't be proud to have your parents read."

If teens and young adults are going to use the internet social network sites, they need to know employers, school administrators and EVERYONE is looking.

Are you proud of what you post online?

It's fair. When I was young, my parents would say, "don't put anything in writing, or say anything you wouldn't be proud to have your parents read."

If teens and young adults are going to use the internet social network sites, they need to know employers, school administrators and EVERYONE is looking.

Are you proud of what you post online?

It's fair. When I was young, my parents would say, "don't put anything in writing, or say anything you wouldn't be proud to have your parents read."

If teens and young adults are going to use the internet social network sites, they need to know employers, school administrators, neighbors, parent coworkers and EVERYONE is looking.

It's fair. When I was young, my parents would say, "don't put anything in writing, or say anything you wouldn't be proud to have your parents read."

If teens and young adults are going to use the internet social network sites, they need to know employers, school administrators, neighbors, parent coworkers and EVERYONE is looking.

Strange, it says your comments did not post, but they do. Someone should check that.

LOL

The line is where you and the college have agreed to place it. If you've enrolled and accepted a "code of conduct" that extends into your off-campus or personal life, you've entered into a contract. You can either accept the contract and abide by it or not, but posting your shenanigans on Facebook or other public social forums is a sure way of getting caught, and also revealing yourself as untrustworthy.

These conduct codes are generally targeted towards student athletes rather than the general student population in most public schools. It's part of the price of playing sports. Nobody cares if the perennial philosophy major is getting bombed.

The line is where you and the college have agreed to place it. If you've enrolled and accepted a "code of conduct" that extends into your off-campus or personal life, you've entered into a contract. You can either accept the contract and abide by it or not, but posting your shenanigans on Facebook or other public social forums is a sure way of getting caught, and also revealing yourself as untrustworthy.

These conduct codes are generally targeted towards student athletes rather than the general student population in most public schools. It's part of the price of playing sports. Nobody cares if the perennial philosophy major is getting bombed.

I think it is wrong to assume a fake identity to get information,that is entrapment. Finding public information about a student? That puts the onus on the student.

I have been thinking lately that there are many similarities between the explosion of email use in the late 80's and early 90's and the growth of social media in the 00's. We needed to learn not just how to use the technology but also a new form of communication. There was a new set of rules with email. People needed to learn, then to take their hand of the send button.

With social media we are building a reservoir of urban legend. A collective unconscious of cautionary tales. Once these incidents reach a certain level I think people will begin to be more cautious about how they present themselves. In ten years students will have seen enough people navigate these waters as will have there parents.

For now, should the university police students online? I don't think it is clear cut. As a parent I think the earlier you can give your child a consequence for inappropriate behavior the better. If these college students have academic probation for normal college antics now that may be a well learned lesson that may prevent them from losing something more important later, a job as you say or worse, a marriage. But, are we also teaching them that being their own “personal brand” is more worthwhile than being who they really are? Is forcing them to be circumspect and overly cautious telling them that somehow who they are is not OK?

I think in the end, if the university pursues this type of spying they will perhaps teach a lesson to the kids they catch and humiliate but the other students they haven't caught, what will they teach them? I suspect they will learn to distrust people and they will learn to lie. This would not be a lesson I would want to be paying my children's tuition for.

Al Queda uses low tech communication...no electronic transmision. If you want privacy do as they do. We cannot break their communications because they are nonelectronic. Privacy in USA is pretty much dead at this point.