Sticking it to The Man, or, Watch What You Write on facebook
I do realize that this story has already been blogged to death, but I would like to again bring up the famous/infamous/it-depends-on-your-perspective facebook cake party at George Washington University. It seems that several members of the campus police at that university were using facebook to find parties to bust on the weekends; in fact, the campus police had even contacted people with warnings about facebook parties before they even happened.
One group of students had their party shut down for underage drinking after posting the event on facebook last semester. After a lot of planning, they posted information about another huge "Beer Blast". Sure enough, a contingent of police officers arrived a few hours in to find about forty students, including Kyle Stoneman, gathered around cake. That's right, there were cakes and cookies with "BEER" written in frosting, cake in those ubiquitous red plastic cups, a table for cake-pong, cake hidden under beds, and even one enterprising fellow doing a cake-stand. All is explained at cakeparty.org, but so far the site has been so popular that its bandwidth cannot handle it. The New York Times and The Oregonian's bromidic Margie Boulé also have reported the story while discussing the facebook.com phenomenon in general.
The point: WATCH WHAT YOU POST ON FACEBOOK, because the campus faculty certainly are. Rumor has it that even though facebook has only been around for a couple of years, some employers are already checking it to make sure they are not hiring a closet alcoholic/pothead/exhibitionist/Libertarian. Anyone who doubts that a certain other university we all know and love is checking facebook can leave a message about it right here or on my facebook page.
One group of students had their party shut down for underage drinking after posting the event on facebook last semester. After a lot of planning, they posted information about another huge "Beer Blast". Sure enough, a contingent of police officers arrived a few hours in to find about forty students, including Kyle Stoneman, gathered around cake. That's right, there were cakes and cookies with "BEER" written in frosting, cake in those ubiquitous red plastic cups, a table for cake-pong, cake hidden under beds, and even one enterprising fellow doing a cake-stand. All is explained at cakeparty.org, but so far the site has been so popular that its bandwidth cannot handle it. The New York Times and The Oregonian's bromidic Margie Boulé also have reported the story while discussing the facebook.com phenomenon in general.
The point: WATCH WHAT YOU POST ON FACEBOOK, because the campus faculty certainly are. Rumor has it that even though facebook has only been around for a couple of years, some employers are already checking it to make sure they are not hiring a closet alcoholic/pothead/exhibitionist/Libertarian. Anyone who doubts that a certain other university we all know and love is checking facebook can leave a message about it right here or on my facebook page.
posted by Bethylene at 16:27
2 Comments:
Facebook is and always has been a waste of time. As far as people reading it goes; be proud, for those internet personalities that so many create of themselves... have finally been heard. Have a nice day:)
Awww... moose is awfully mean. Facebook is fun and the Internet is fun. At least that's my stance on it. Anyway, I gave cakeparty.org another 10 GB of bandwidth, and that should keep it more than set for the rest of the month.
Cheers
-Kyle
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