Jail for the creator of a Facebook Page

As part of our Cybersafety sessions we run at school we always discuss the creation of inappropriate pages on Facebook and the consequences of getting caught. Two years ago we saw a huge increase in pages, being set up by students, supposedly as a joke, that encouraged bullying and gossip. The examples we used were the "goss" and "rate a root"sites that were specific to suburbs or schools.

Today, finally there is a clear message that this behaviour is not acceptable and The Age newspaper has reported that two young mean have just received 4 years jail for creating a "rate a root" site.

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/jail-for-creator-of-root-rate-facebook-page-20120821-24jr5.html#ixzz24EcV813F