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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One of my colleagues (I'm a teacher) had a MySpace page in college, and she apparently stopped using it without making it private, and just forgot about it.  Her students found it last year, and boy, was she embarrassed (plus got a talking-to from the director).  It included explicit language about her sex life AND her bulimic episodes.  I thought it was a joke when I first saw one of the printouts that students had left around.  Tell your son that it is difficult to remember all of your web activity, and that in the future, someone WILL find everything.  [/quote]

This is a good lesson for all about leaving an Internet trail behind. Sadly, it was at the cost of the teacher's reputation. Since this was a MySpace account I'm going to guess this took place when the teacher was still a teenager (given the timeline of when it would have been popular for her). However, ALL people need to be careful - both teens and adults. I've seen some stuff adults in my life have posted to social media that is inappropriate.

However, as this lesson was playing out to call out the teacher for her inappropriate online behavior I certainly hope that someone (parents, school administrators, etc) also pointed out that printing out information about a person with the explicit intent to embarrass and humiliate them is a pretty shitty thing to do. It's what asshole bullies do and it's not something to be pushed to the side in order to reprimand the teacher for things she did when she was a teenager. [/quote]

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