Facebook’s 500 million users are slowly becoming aware that the web is not private space. The BBC recently reported that 16 high school students in India were each given three month suspensions for making ‘rude’ statements about a female teacher through the comment section on their profiles. Examples like this are more common than people think.
More than 15% of young adults have said they have had personal messages, texts, and posts forwarded without their permission or viewed by outsiders. If you wouldn’t say it in public, you might consider whether or not you should say it online. If you can’t resist, however, sites like ratemyprofessors.com provide a degree of anonymity that far surpass that of one’s Facebook wall.
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