"For teachers on Facebook, professionalism trumps fun."
~Zosia Bielski, 2011
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Facebook and professionalism: What you should know
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Someone can be charged with the crime for creating a Web page, social media profile or other online account posing as a victim without their consent and using their persona to harm, defraud, threaten or intimidate someone.
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Football coach and teacher, Paul Withee, "accidently" posted a nude picture of himself on Facebook. He meant to share this with his girlfriend, but ended up sharing it with all. He resigned his post before administrative action could be taken, when a parent noticed and told within 10 minutes of the accident.
The new Facebook Timeline is now mandatory. Users have 7 days to reflect on their past entries, photos, etc.
College lecturer, Muhammad Ruhul Amin Khandaker, from 
"Trevor Wrinch routinely declines friend requests. He’s barricaded his Facebook account behind several layers of privacy settings, and posts an unremarkable profile picture.
This statement is prepared by the Texas Association of School Boards for use by local districts. Most districts adopt these (or similar) policies, and teachers are required to abide by their local districts' policies.
With Facebook going from a social only to both social and professional networks, what are the rules of the thumb?If teachers claim free speech protection under the First Amendment, the U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that governments can fire employees if their speech harmed the workplace's mission and function.
More and more, people are finding that the pictures, stories and other personal artifacts of their lives that they are posting on social networking sites to share with their friends and family, is creating problems for them in their professional and pre-professional lives.
In 2006, an Austin high school art teacher was fired when her partner posted pictures of her on Flickr.com. The postings were to chronicle the couple's lives together. Another teacher with a grudge against the art teacher told students. From there, it was only a matter of little time before parents and district administrators discovered the material. According to one blog, by Steven Rothberg from collegerecruiter.com, the pictures were fairly modest. In 2007, a Pennsylvania High School teacher was dismissed from her teaching position and lost her teaching credentials when administrators found her MySpace profile photo: the teacher, dressed as a pirate, holding a large plastic cup and labeled "drunken pirate." In 2008, a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools teacher faced firing for posting derogatory comments about students on Facebook. Four other teachers were disciplined for posts involving "poor judgment and bad taste." How were these postings discovered? A local news reporter specifically searched for CMS employees, and found seven he felt contained questionable content and turned them over to district officials.
District officials are working on a memo reminding all 19,000 employees that information they post on the Web can be viewed by the public and should be appropriate. When you're in a professional position, especially one where you're interacting with children and parents, you need to be above reproach (Helms, 2008).