to think that teachers should have a PRIVATE facebook profile?!

[TallulahBetty]

Ok, I should point out that the teacher in question is my friend. Not one of my closest (hence why I've not said anything as yet), but a friend nonetheless.

She is a secondary school teacher with a very distinctive/unusual name. It would not be that hard to search for her and find her on Facebook.

Her profile is completely 'public' so anyone (even those not her friend) can see what she types. Her profile (statuses AND pictures) are full of her getting drunk, semi-naked, saying how much she 'hates this job' and 'aaargggh can't stand this class' etc etc.

A few weeks ago, she told a mutual friend that a pupil had commented in class about something she (teacher) got up to at the weekend. She seemingly unaware that people can see EVERYTHING that she writes. Pupils, their parents, other teachers. Everyone, should they wish to. She deliberately does not accept friend requests from such people.

WIBU to advise her to make it private?! Or is this just poking my nose in?

I never understand why people get into trouble over FB. You can find me fairly easily but you can't find anything out- it is all on the highest possible privacy settings and I check them every so often.

I think sometimes people don't realise how their FB pages make them look to others.

Obviously if you want your friends to know the in and out of your life, fine, but some people are not thinking that other people will check it.

We do a FB search at work before interviewing potential employees, if your FB is open to everyone and full of drunken "antics" (directors word, not mine) half naked pics, lots of details about your job, you don't get an interview.

Daft Facebook question here. I set up an account a few years ago and have never touched it since. Can I deactivate it when I don't remember any log in details?

Do the lost password - get in and deactivate it.

Ok, thanks!

You can do a check on your FB page and you can put in a friends name and see what it looks like to them and you can see what it looks like to strangers. You can make sure that people don't even know who your friends are.

She is being very silly. DH is a teacher, at his last school, two members of staff got into a very agressive war on FB. It was played out to the wider community due to laxity of privacy settings.
One was disciplined one was sacked.
He doesn't have a FB account.

A colleague of mine (other public sector) nearly got into serious trouble over posts her dp wrote about her work colleagues. I advise all my staff now not to even mention work at all on fb, just so nothing could be misinterpreted

I have a Teacher friend who has a Twitter account with no privacy. She too has a very unusual name and it is so easy go find her. She puts all sorts on there too- sexual jokes, swears, moans about her job. Ill advised but she doesn't seem to care when you mention it to her!

I don't do FB or any of those sorts of things anymore to avoid all of these concerns.

She is being very silly to have left her profile public, yes.

But I don't agree that teachers should need fake names/nicknames or not to be on facebook. I was at university when facebook took off. It is a part of my life. I use it as my phone and my email more often than not, it stores all my photos and it keeps me in day to day contact with my friends. I wouldn't dream of closing mya ccount down just because I am a teacher, nor would I want my friends not to be able to find me because I was hiding from children and parents. I have colleagues as my facebook friends and work related comments are often made between us. I post funny work related statuses. The only things I would not do are to mention anything identifiable about a child, say anything negative about the school or post any photos of the children.