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Social network’s are good and give you some healthy interaction with your peers. But privacy has  become so much of an issue that no one can deny its implications. Today a federal judge has ruled against a former student of Millersville University of Pennsylvania who was denied her college degree because of an unseemly online photo and its accompanying caption found on her social network profile.

Stacy Snyder, had put "Drunken Pirate," as her status on her profile. Snyder was a student-teaching at a high school and the authorities soon booted her out not because of her performance but due to her MySpace photo.

Snyder had appealed her case, but after losing she went to sue the university. The case was eventually ruled out in favor of the university.

This was not about First Amendment rights, it was about performance, and she clearly did not do what was necessary in order to earn a degree in education, University president, Francine McNairy said.

However Snyder had something else to say.

I have nothing to hide. I am over 21, and I don’t say anything that will hurt me (in the long run). Plus, I don’t think that they would stoop that low as to mess with my future.

What we should learn from this is to Use Privacy Controls On our Social Network Profiles. What do you think about this case…