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Facebook Is a Public Place 2

It doesn’t take an IT certification to know that nothing that passes through the internet is private.

Exhibit one:

See, here was Buck’s (Buck Burnette–U. of Texas footballer–ed.) Facebook status following Barack Obama’s win the presidential election:

    “all the hunters gather up, we have a #$%&er in the whitehouse”

Geez, Buck. Even if you actually feel that way — which is sad — why not just keep it to yourself? You know, instead of telling five million people. But he didn’t, and naturally, he is now paying the price; he’s been kicked off the UT football team.

Exhibit two (from across the Big Pond–later in the article, the author explores whether such a firing would be legal in the US):

Virgin Atlantic airline fired 13 employees for what they said on Facebook. The charge: The employees “brought the company into disrepute.” The evidence: a discussion that said its airplanes (their workplace) harbored cockroaches and that its customers were “chavs,” the British slang equivalent of “white trash.”

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2 comments

  1. Karen

    November 7, 2008 at 11:33 am

    At least he appears to be sorry for what he did. And surprisingly accepts responsibility for his own actions. Far too few people do.

     
  2. Frank

    November 8, 2008 at 8:34 pm

    Well, when you’ve been booted of the team and, probably, lost a scholarship (this is UT–on any given day they could probably beat the Steelers), what choice do you have?

    It’s like being caught at work with porno on your work computer. If you don’t deserve to fired for the porno, you deserve to be fired for the dumb.

     
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