Our World

Bad Students

Tonight KARE11.com ran a story about an eigth grader that is now in trouble because he has created a My Space profile, with the help of other students, that portrays his teacher a sex offender. Of course the profile is fake, but the students are now in a lot of trouble and could be facing expulsion. Two points: first, this really shows the growth and popularity in technologies. Years ago, even though the internet wasn't around, this story wouldn't be heard of. My Space has become such a popular site amongst tens of millions of people that now we begin to see cases like this develop. Second, we begin to see the impacts of technology on the people of the world. In this case, the impact of technology was bad because a student was using the site inappropriately.

As our world becomes more connected through social networking sites such as MySpace, we need to continue to be aware of what children are putting on the internet. My Space is like a large city online with so many people and everyone needs to know how to be safe.

posted by Kevin Hurd @ 4/23/2006 11:40:00 PM