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The hazards of Facebook's social experiment

by ricknight | May 1, 2007 at 03:33 am

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Five teenage pupils at a Thornhill public school have become the latest Toronto-area members to run afoul of school authorities on Facebook.com. And with the city currently holding the title as the most populous place in the social networking website's world, they aren't likely to be the last.

The pupils from Willowbrook Public School were barred last week from a year-end trip to Montreal for Grade 8 graduates after derogatory comments about teachers were spotted on a Facebook group.

It is the third time in as many months that Toronto-area pupils have been disciplined over comments on the popular social networking destination.

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Victoria Revay

at 12:24 on May 1st, 2007

Thanks Rick, 11% of Canadians use Facebook? That's huge.

ricknight

at 16:59 on May 1st, 2007

Victoria, I think it's 11% of facebook users are Canadian. not as huge, but still large by any means. Heck I'm hooked.

ScienceDave

at 06:00 on May 12th, 2007

I am baffled that teachers are capable of reprimanding students for comments made outside of the classroom/school.

rhonda deal (not verified)

at 07:07 on March 26th, 2009

i agree with sciencedave. how do the teachers/school officials have any right to punish a student for something that happens or is said outside of school?

dyls radcliffe (not verified)

at 13:53 on August 7th, 2009

people with mountainous amounts of time on their hands to scavenge others Facebook pages are only a smidgen of the dramatis personae in Prolific Playwright Larry Myers' "Facebook Puberty."

Dr. Myers is social critic, raconteur, mentor & amply qualified to pen a stagework about Facebook's many faces & phases

not only that he's taken on "My Space Scrabble"

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