A NJ principal, Anthony Orsini is telling parents to keep their kids off of social networking sites like Facebook. Orsini is the principal at Benjamin Franklin Middle School and is telling parents that their children have no business spreading personal information on social networking sites. He is quoted on CNN saying:
"It is time for every single member of the [school] Community to take a stand!”
His reasoning behind the mass e-mail to parents is that kids at that age don’t have the intellectual ability to know what to share and what not to share...he has a point. I know that when I was a teenager in high school I wanted the world to know everything about me, and had no idea what danger could come from revealing too much.
I spoke about cyber-bullying in my paper on Friday and this is one of the things Principal Orsini is concerned about. He is worried that students with online profiles will be more susceptible to online predators and bullying from other people at school.
This principal maybe taking some extreme measures to protect his students, but in this technological era it makes sense.
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