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‘Bored’ Facebook status reason for recent firing

gbrown88 — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 05:59:06 +0000

In this recent video you see another reason appear for getting fired from basic. Aside for the typical ‘inappropriate’ picture fire, a 16-year old girl from Essex, England was recently fired after her boss saw her Facebook status after her first day of on the job. It read:

first day at work. omg!! So dull!!

Her boss felt that if she was so bored on the first day of work, it would not be a good fit in the long run.

An underlying story in the firing is the close notice kept on the girls Facebook page by the boss. Facebook and other social networking sites are being used more often by employees as a tool for background checking, but the notice of a status update after the first day of work may be a little to much attention by this middle-aged male.

School bullying going from the classroom to the internet

gbrown88 — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:02:15 +0000

A high school student in Canada was recently kicked out for school for cyber-bullying on the social network Facebook.com. The student had setup a group about high schools vice-principle, where students posted derogatory comments about the vice-principle.

The Globe.com, reported 5 students, including the creator of the group Brad Parsons, where each suspended. Brad Parsons has yet to hear from the school what his punishment would be, but the other 4 students each received suspensions ranging from 4 to 20 days.

The school has a zero-tolerance policy concerning cyber-bullying. Facebook does not allow these condone type of groups on their network. Due to the large network of Facebook though, they do not have the time to check every group. They expect their users to have good judgment when in these situations, and they do have a “report” link where users can reports situations of cyber-bullying, spam and others.

Facebook’s chief privacy officer Chris Kelly had this to say:

“We’ve made a decision as a host of this information to not allow those types of personal attacks, (and) we deter them by expecting accountability. But we also have terms of service that allow us to remove those from the site, and when those are reported, we do that.”

Other students started a rally in the days following the suspensions which turned violent. Four students were taken away by police officers. Charges from the students range from obstructing a peace officer and assault with a weapon. The students contend that this is a breach of their freedom of speech.

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gbrown88 — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:39:51 +0000

Hear about the students who where expelled for a Facebook study group? How about the guy who got denied acceptance to a college because he posted dispargering coments about the school? Or the high school students suspended for posting pictures of themselves getting drunk on MySpace? At MyNaym.com you can find the latest news on people getting suspended, denied or fired from a job, expelled, etc., for postings and pictures they have made on MySpace, Facebook, blogs or any other online website.

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