The little Big Power Of Social Media

http://www.thespec.com/news/ontario/article/841557--brampton-students-suspended-for-inappropriate-tweets

The relation between education and social media is becoming shorter every day. A simple example of this is that High School students got suspended in Brampton because they Twitted an "opinion" about some of their teachers, so apparently this was known by the school directives and had a direct consequence in the students "real" life, even though this was an "offense" , it was not committed at school or at a scenario where the teacher and student were still having the same roll of power over one another.

This is just a little sample to make a point, saying that a comment on the internet will get you a suspension at school, is facing a new stage on the internet era, social media is so incredibly massive and it spreads so fast that this students couldn't run away from its power, just type an aggressive comment and if it becomes interesting to anybody it turns into massive in just a matter of seconds.

Probably what made the teachers go crazy about this wasn't the fact that 7 students thought "they were a bunch of losers", that is not a major concern teachers have had situations like this since day one, perhaps decades ago.What really made them take that decision is that they know that their reputation could be easily destroyed just with one negative comment posted on twitter.

This is all possible today thanks to the power of social media.