Cyberbullying: New Communication Technologies 2 minute video

Teacher gets fired for a Facebook picture

Here is an article where a teacher gets fired for posting a picture to Facebook of her holding two glasses of alcohol.  Facebook privacy settings are constantly changing, so it's important to know which of your posts can be viewed by the public.  Check it out!

Teacher loses her job for not giving up her Facebook password

Check out this article where a Michigan teacher was fired for not giving up her Facebook password.  Our generation is on Facebook multiple hours of the day.  But is posting too personal of information worth losing your job?  You decide!

Shania is raped and murdered by a man who uses a fake Facebook account

This article is another example of a fake Facebook profile.  A man pretends to be someone else on Facebook to get a former babysitter back into his home so he can kill her before he's sentenced jail time for a prior offense against her.  Everyone thinks it can't happen to them, but the truth is, it can happen to ANYONE.  Take a look!

Face Facebook Accounts

Have a look at this article.  This is a great example of how fake accounts on Facebook can lead to disaster, and in some extreme cases, even death.  I'm going to use this specific case in my essay, as it illustrates the dangers of face Facebook profiles.  

Facebook Bullying

Here is a really sad article I found about Facebook bullying.  15-year-old Holly took her own life after being tormented on her Facebook profile.  Cyber bullying is very common, and Facebook is just another site that makes such an awful act a very easy thing to do.

Facebook Privacy Article

Check out this article on Facebook's privacy lawsuits!  I've used a lot of this information in my essay.  As a public company, Facebook is now expected to grow its advertising revenues very rapidly, which puts the social networking site under a lot of pressure to collect even more user data to help it target its ads.  This means Facebook will be claiming the rights to even more of the information its users are posting.