11.15.2008

area longhorn's career ruined by facebook

excerpts from Houston Chronicle:

No longer a member of the Texas football team, Buck Burnette serves as a lesson about being careful with material put on personal Web pages...

In the status update section of his Facebook page, Burnette posted, “All the hunters gather up, we have a nigger in the White House,” in reference to Obama’s becoming the first African-American elected to the presidency. Burnette said the comment was a text message he received from a friend and that he exercised bad judgment posting it on his page...

“That stuff will get you in trouble,” said Texas defensive end Brian Orakpo, a senior from Lamar High School. “Our main thing is to stay low-key and not put your business on the Internet where everybody can see.”...

Facebook, which made its debut in 2004, has more than 120 million active users, according to the Web site of the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company. “This day and age, they just live on that stuff,” Chizik said. “We just try and educate them on the evils of it.”

our kids are at risk! social networking lurks around every corner, its big lips salivating at the prospect of telling the world what our kids are thinking. keep your children offline! fight the social rot that is exposing our great nation to its moral rot!

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