Use Caution When Posting on Social Network Sites
As I began implementing Twitter into my classes this week, I gave my students a long talk about internet safety and the fact that EVERYTHING you put on the internet is public. This is why I dispise the wall on Facebook for a lot of things. People use the wall to basically have public conversations and they don’t realize what they are saying or doing sometimes. This cop in this story is a perfect example. I don’t know that I buy the whole internet persona argument. Especially when you are a public figure (like a cop or a teacher) I don’t know that you get the luxury of a internet and a personal persona. You can try, but it is tough to hide on-line when you are a public figure like that.
The lesson here is kind of about being careful on-lin, but of course the lesson should really be don’t beat people and frame them you arrest them.
http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/03/officers-online-comments-used-against-him-in-court.ars
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