My Stupid Mouth

Sadly I find this is consistent with my personal experience. 

So this high school in Connecticut creates a slide show of student photos and status updates to use at an internet safety assembly for freshman.  The students see their photos and statuses, which were posted publicly online for all the world to see, and become outraged that the school used “their” content without permission.

This was a genius idea and the hubbub it created makes a valuable point.  These students do not understand the consequences of their posts OR the privacy policies of the websites they’re posting on.  If you don’t want it on the slideshow at the school assembly should you really be putting it out there at all?

This is a valuable lesson for kids.  Many of my students have NO privacy protections on their Facebook accounts.  It’s too bad that Facebook et al are blacklisted on the school network and our computer teachers don’t get the opportunity to teach students how to protect themselves better online.

Let this be a lesson: if you put it out their publicly than the public can access 

If it weren’t for Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert bringing the funny I’m certain contemporary politics would drive me to total despair.

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