School upsets student by showing a picture in assembly to highlight facebook privacy

[Inseriousity.]

I find blaming someone's privacy settings quite gross tbh. Regardless of someone's privacy settings, unless you're deliberately doing stuff to gain attention (viral stunts etc) then you can assume that only your close circle of friends will ever look at your pictures, potential employers possibly, a rogue stalker possibly. Your teachers to humiliate you in an assembly? No.

Yes it's probably safer to have it set to private but that excuse doesn't justify being exposed like that! That poor girl must be getting tortured

[dbgtz]

I don't get that, the school found a picture she publicly posted on a social media website, then her mother complains that the picture that her daughter uploaded isn't a proper representation of her?

Then don't take pictures of yourself in a bikini and upload it to facebook if it's not a proper representation of you, you silly cow.

It's the girls fault for not having the appropriate privacy settings, not the college or school for finding something that's publicly posted.

I pretty much agree with this entirely. I don't get why she should at all feel embarrassed though. She's happy for everyone she has on Facebook to see and everyone who was physically near her to see at the time of the photo so what's actually so bad? The only odd thing about this is the fact some teacher Facebook stalked a bunch of pupils.

[The Don]

I pretty much agree with this entirely. I don't get why she should at all feel embarrassed though. She's happy for everyone she has on Facebook to see and everyone who was physically near her to see at the time of the photo so what's actually so bad? The only odd thing about this is the fact some teacher Facebook stalked a bunch of pupils.

Because she doesn't want to be bloody targetted in her assembly, especially by her teachers?! Absolutely crazy that people here are defending this.

[Aiden]

Not a very nice thing to do but she could of prevented it I guess...

[Kyle]

The it guy at the high school I went to sixth form at created a fake bebo account and added girls on it claiming that it highlighted much the same thing. Bebo. Lmfao.

This is wrong but the message is still an important one. Check your privacy


~~from phone

[Hannah]

While I totally agree that privacy should be dealt with and students that 'may not even know' are informed - this was the completely wrong way to go about it and it is totally unacceptable for teachers to go searching through Facebook for their students.

Were they not teaching the students, they wouldn't even know about them of their name - so would never have come across it were they not in that position.

I genuinely think that it's sickening that they were allowed to do that, singling out one student when they could have quite easily used a completely different example to demonstrate it.

[wixard]

So what if it was shown to all... it is publicly viewable on her Facebook, if she didn't want people to see it then quite frankly she shouldn't post it. It amuses me when people complain after non private stuff from their facebook is leaked... next time don't post your life on there.

if that was the case go through all your students who have public settings and pick a photo from each

it makes absolutely no sense that they singled out ONE student out of 100

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i actually find this mind boggling and don't think this can be true? does anyone else not find it really ******* weird

[Red]

They showed other photos tara but only hers was in her bikini and loads of people upload holiday snaps of them in a bikini Scott! They don't derserve to have it posted up in assembly! That teacher is an idiot, of course doing that is going to cause humiliation for the student.

[wixard]

OKAY this article makes so much more sense now, so she wasn't TARGETTED fair enough

yeah i still don't agree with them doing it, but at least i understand it now and how they ****** it up so bad

[GommeInc]

It could have been done privately between the school and pupil as it is a bit humiliating for her. It's typical of schools to not know how to handle private yet public social media and technology affairs. It's one area schools desperately need to look at to educate students.