This month a 26-year-old trainee accountant was arrested and fined £1,000 after posting a joke on Twitter about blowing up an airport. He also lost his job. Start a discussion about how comments posted on social networking sites are viewed in the wider public domain. Do young people realise exactly who could be looking at their information or comments on sites such as Twitter or Facebook?
Ask young people to think about the photos they might upload to the internet or be tagged in on Facebook or similar sites. What sort of pictures are they? What might people think if they are viewing them out of context? Consider the case of an American teaching student, whose university saw a photo of her on MySpace wearing a pirate hat and drinking from a plastic cup. The photo was captioned "drunken pirate". The university deemed it unprofessional and potentially offensive to her students, and refused to award her a teaching degree.
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