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    Re: School + facebook = bad plan

    Quote Originally Posted by nibbler View Post

    This is actually starting to frustrate me...
    I had nothing to do with it - I'm not an idiot thanks. I'm just curious to know what the consequences are. I haven't done anything and more to the point it's not like he named and shamed people or admitted that it was the school who made the account. So he hasn't achieved anything, for all we know it isn't even the school.
    Indeed - there is a little bit of conclusion jumping going on in the thread - the original post stated the question quite clearly - and I think it has been answered. However the thread has raised one or two other questions about cyber bullying/stalking which are (IMHO) worthy of debate.

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    Re: School + facebook = bad plan

    Quote Originally Posted by Barakka View Post
    Could be the school has had complaints about bullying on Facebook where a pupil created an account and added lots of people only to get abuse.

    So rather than use the pupil in question as an example they created a "fake" student to see the effect for themselves. Also so that when they make a big deal of it attention (thought) doesn't automatically fall to the original complainant as this new "person" is more prominent in their minds.
    I guess it's possible, it's jsut I really haven't noticed anything going on :S
    And to be honest with you, I go to a school in a pretty affluent area, there are no hardcore chavs (or neds as they're called here)
    to speak of and everyone is just very... polite on facebook, that's what confuses me
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    Re: School + facebook = bad plan

    Quote Originally Posted by nibbler View Post

    This is actually starting to frustrate me...
    I had nothing to do with it - I'm not an idiot thanks. I'm just curious to know what the consequences are. I haven't done anything and more to the point it's not like he named and shamed people or admitted that it was the school who made the account. So he hasn't achieved anything, for all we know it isn't even the school.
    I feel your pain. It must be very frustrating to have to keep repeating this. Strange that so many people feel OK about 'advising' you, without actually having read your OP.

    Anyway, it's legal, just pretty pointless.

    If the school decided to punish anyone, what would be the reason? Bullying a fictitious character? Bullying the school cop perhaps? It sounds obvious that everyone (as you said) quickly worked out that this 'person' was just a stalking horse and treated it with the contempt it deserved.

    On Hexus people who pretend to be someone they are not are punished by expulsion, if I recall correctly, so I doubt anyone here actually sympathises with the troll-bot.

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    Re: School + facebook = bad plan

    Thankyou Brucelles - exactly the kind of response i've been looking for! A reasonable one! Also a nice analogy at the end
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    Re: School + facebook = bad plan

    Quote Originally Posted by nibbler View Post
    OR maybe people could actually start listening to me instead of calling me a know it all who added a stranger - I didn't add this person, and I am not guilty of anything, I just am curious as to why the school think they can do this. Why can't I ask a question without being judged?
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    Re: School + facebook = bad plan

    TBH you might have had better replies if you had just stated the facts instead of mocking the staff:
    Quote Originally Posted by nibbler View Post
    To add insult to injury, the 'campus cop' (read: inept policeman sent to a school to keep him out of the way
    That's what probably made us think you were more inclined towards "getting one over them" than the technical/legal point of fake accounts.
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