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   29 Jan 2008 ~ 11:25am FelixDeSouze I don't think they should penalise him personally.
   
   I've had a MySpace page and they CAN be changed within minutes and you can't be responsible for what people post on them!
   
   I think it's rediculous that he is going to get an investigation into him personally when it is not his fault (IMO).
   
   It is hard to keep track of all of the people on your MySpace profile as once you get over the 15-20+ range you rarely get to check over and speak with EACH AND EVERY person on there.
   
   It's just impossible, so it might be that he hadn't even spoken to that person for a good while and then they changed it..
   
   Stupid thing really.
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   29 Jan 2008 ~ 8:36pm mmonnin You CAN be responsible for what people post on them. You can set it so that Wall posts have to be approved before being visible to anyone else.
   
   Sure its not his fault, but being the position he is in, aimed at young kids, he should have taken that precaution.
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   29 Jan 2008 ~ 8:46pm CB This was Myspace, not Facebook. I don't think they have such features in place.
   
   Really what he should have done is picked a more professional networking site, like Facebook, where the atmosphere is more friendly and ... erm... mature.
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   30 Jan 2008 ~ 3:09am FelixDeSouze Agreed CB, MySpace is really bad IMO.
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   30 Jan 2008 ~ 3:13am Thrax Or just not socially networked and avoid the potential altogether. Hoio.
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   30 Jan 2008 ~ 9:20am CB Well they guy had a good idea, and I think it really does make children safer if they feel they have a personal relationship with the person who is tasked to guard their safety, as it makes it much more likely that they will go to him when there is something that they need be guarded from. He just went about it wrong. He probably chose Myspace because that's most popular among secondary school aged children, but unfortunately that should have been a clue that it wasn't the best way to connect with them over the internet.
   
   It's one thing to want the students to see you as a friend, it something else entirely to attempt to submerse yourself in their culture.
   
   My grandfather had this same issue. He was a secondary school administrator in the 60's, after having been a teacher through the 50's. He was trying to find ways to connect with the students who were all watching the hippy movement, and starting to emulate it. Walking the line between befriending the students and falling into their muck was too difficult for him, and more than once he was asked to quietly move on to another school because the parents were complaining about the 'hippy principal' that the students loved so much.
   
   Of course, a Principal has to be even more careful than a security guard, since their actions directly represent the school itself.