A story from Vancouver illustrates how teens, teachers and parents are still grappling over how to deal with Facebook. In this case, a teenager was expelled from school for setting up a Facebook group in which she said she would kick her teacher.
The school saw this as a threat to the teacher and expelled the student. Her father maintains it was just a joke.
The story shows how what someone may see just as a prank has far-reaching ramifications once it is written and published online for anyone to see. As I said when I was interviewed for the article, it highlights the tension between what teens consider their private space but is actually a public forum.
Ironically, the journalist who wrote the story contacted me via Facebook.
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