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It’s actually a form of bullying and the use of Facebook allows the students involved to organise and to ensure that programming they have the numbers programming in a way that other websites wouldn’t. This is the difference between Facebook and other websites I wanted to highlight- not a difference in quality or ’seriousness’, but a difference in what it enables its users to do. Other websites, because they don’t link users attending a particular school, don’t allow for the same targeted humiliation.Such comments made programming as gossip in the corridor or among the students themselves would be just as nasty, but, unless the young women involved called a meeting of the students in the class and made the same remarks, you could not argue that there was the same intent to actually organise a group within the classroom hostile to the TA. Also, given that Facebook would be used by faculty and graduate students as well as undergraduates, the students must have been aware that there was a possibility that the TA or another staff member would see their remarks (They even seem to have linked their forum to another forum which has the name of the class in its title).
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