No matter how confident you are that Facebook is all about your privacy never go beyond taking pride in doing something wrong and discussing it openly on the social network. A similar story surfaced recently which states that two Belgian college student have earned zero on two of their courses. Reason? The two had been cheating during examinations, well the authorities in college had no evidence to punish the two but upon noticing a few threads on Facebook, where the two had boasted of cheating and not being caught to date. Bad place and it got them in the trouble they weren’t looking for. What I am confused about is that whether conversations on Facebook can be used as evidence or not. I mean there are a whole lot of things that people talk about on the social network and if this is taken as seriously as it has been I bet there are going to be actions taken against the very many on numerous other things that happen. What do you folks think of this?
it really was just not smart, either way. People are constantly let go from employment for their statements, personal opinions and photos of crazy, wild or just plane fun times. if you,re going to make your life ‘more’ public, avoid tying in directly personal things. really.
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Well you are right, but i guess social network like Facebook or Orkut shouldn’t really be taken in a way that lead to all this. I mean firing an employee because he says something directly insulting sounds quite a justified reason to fire one. But this thread.. I will side with the students here.
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You’re right, I side with the student’s “freedom” (not with the action). I think it was totally stupid (for a lack of better wording) to post their succeeding in cheating.
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I hate it when someone sends out a group mail on Facebook and I have to hear every single reply – is there any way to stop this?
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