Growing Concern Over Facebook Confession Pages

CBS - Wausau, Wisconsin
Posted 4/4/13

Concerns grow over Facebook confession pages Teenagers are no longer using social media just to post pictures and connect with friends. A new wave of "confessions" Facebook pages are popping up at …

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Growing Concern Over Facebook Confession Pages

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Concerns grow over Facebook confession pages Teenagers are no longer using social media just to post pictures and connect with friends. A new wave of "confessions" Facebook pages are popping up at colleges and high schools around the country, where students share their deepest secrets, and they do it all anonymously. Yet this latest online trend is more than an outlet for embarrassing stories. At schools in our area, administrators have found it's also a gateway for dangerous behavior. One of these confessions pages for D.C. Everest High School has received more than 1,300 "likes" just in the past week. But there are a number of people who also dislike what's being posted on the site, and want it shut down. "We have no control over what's posted on there," said principal Tom Johansen. "Postings are anonymous and you can't track back a URL. However, the steps that we have taken as a school and a district to help protect our kids from bullying is we've contacted Facebook and the Google site because they use Google to get around in Facebook so that is anonymous." While many of the confessions are harmless and funny, others mention sex, drugs or target individuals. Several are even too inappropriate to repeat. Johansen believes a lot of the more scandalous stories are simply untrue. "The greater concerns are the attacks on certain students," Johansen said. Facebook Confession Pages


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