I am not saying that these cases directly prove what I'm trying to say, but that aspects of them relate, which I probably should have been more clear about before. Facebook is so new, that this could potentially end up being the first major trial to set future precedent.

To lighten the mood, has anyone seen this?
http://thenextweb.com/2009/08/09/not...-fb-bitch-job/

No lie. In the other thread, when you mentioned high school teachers trying to friend you, I felt very old. I mean, when I was in high school, "facebook" meant an actual book with pictures of people's faces in it so you could identify them. :o :D

You know what, sometimes I wish it were still like that. As a college student, I feel like my entire social life revolves around facebook. I almost had a nervous breakdown when it wasn't working the other day.

That's not healthy!

LOL. Remember last year, when people were giving up facebook for Lent?

I check my facebook page about twice a month. I don't think my status has been updated since Thanksgiving.

I checked my Facebook 8 times while this page was loading lol

On a more light hearted note:
I'm making "googly" eyes at you right now. Law can be so sexy!:D Temporarily wishing I had pursued my Harvard Law degree.

ETA: I know people giving up facebook for Lent this year as well.

My rho gamma had to shut down her facebook for recruitment and she said sometimes in the middle of the night she would wake up and reactivate it because she hated being let out of the loop. Not to mention that all of us college students are lazy, all of our party invites come through facebook.

Sad, but true :o

This whole incident reminds me of the "Burn Book" in the movie "Mean Girls", when Cady wrote "Ms Norbury is a pusher. A sad old drug pusher." In the real world, what would happen if a student wrote something like this online?

Now I'm recalling Journalism school discussions on libel, slander and malice.

(This might be the third time I have quoted that movie here. I think I've seen it too many times.)

TOMORROW IS NATIONAL "MEAN GIRLS STATUS DAY" ON FACEBOOK!

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?ei...8607603&ref=mf

Other similar cases up for legal review

Too true!! Here's a sure-fire way to get your kids off facebook - get all the parents to join and then "friend" their friends :D

Back to this situation. In my day, the way something like this would have been handled is by the principal sending the kid to the football coach for swats - that was the universal punishment for boys. I heard the paddle had holes in it for aerodynamics.:cool:

That's how lessons were learned in the dark ages.:p

The aerodynamics allows for the paddle to swing faster and also distributes the swat over a smaller area. A properly designed paddle can allow a typing teacher to swat like a PE teacher with a non-holed padded and a PE teacher to raise welts...

You should've thought about keeping the mood light before you tried to assume how I felt about kids.

But, it all makes sense now that we know that you aren't too much older than a high schooler.