Facebook Privacy

Facebook Privacy

Facebook is a site on the Internet for high school students and college students to talk to one another. It got put up for people who when they first started college to get to know each other and learn about everyone on campus. Later it became open to high school students. It was later used for anyone 13 and over. Personally, I don’t really know what to think about teachers looking through student’s facebooks. It’s an invasion of privacy, but… they shouldn’t be doing things they shouldn’t be doing. But I do think that the teachers should trust their students to not do anything bad. Every kid should have some privacy in his or her lives.
Teachers are trying to have a rule that every athlete that comes into their college that they want to check their Facebook before they get accepted into the school. I can see why the would want to do that but if I was one of the athletes I wouldn’t like someone going through my stuff. Its not that I would have something bad on it, its just that nobody likes people going through their stuff. This is probably a main reason why kids don’t agree with parents or teachers having passwords to Facebook, Myspace, or email.
I can understand why they would want to look through a student/athlete’s Facebook. They are attending that school and if they have something bad on there it makes the school look bad sometimes. If a student is trash talking another student over the computer then the school could and should get involved. It’s even worse, if they are being disrespecting the teachers. Then you are disrespecting the school and the teachers in the school.
One of the worst things about the Internet is that it’s not private. Anything you can do on there is not private at all. People can see anything you do on the computer. You shouldn’t be using Facebook as a place where you can trash talk other people. If a conversation gets to a point where you really are getting extremely disrespectful to the other person, the teachers can and will look through it and discipline you. Just remember everything you do on the computer is not private. Don’t do anything stupid that you would later regret. At University High School, it’s even worse because you are using the schools computer. You should definitely not be doing anything wrong on the computer.
One of the worst things that bug me about talking over the computer is how people most of the times people act completely different. You may be talking to a friend that will talk completely different than they would to you in person. A really common thing is having a fight over the computer with somebody. You feel like its safer because there is nothing the other person can do if you are not with the person. Fighting over the Internet makes you look like a huge coward. Talking “face to face” is a lot better because you can actually have a normal conversation and be real with them.
So in the end, I think teachers and adults should only search a persons Facebook if they hear something. There is no reason why the teachers shouldn’t trust the students right off the bat. They should give them a chance and the first thing they hear about something bad on Facebook, Myspace, or iChat they should search his or her computer. So I do not agree with having to check an athlete or students Facebook before they get accepted into the college. It’s a personal site that has nothing to do with school unless you bring school into it or do something that could get you into trouble.