Facebook is a social networking tool where you can find friends, meet friends, and make cool connections. I can be used in a right for such things as making major connections inside and outside your local region, finding people you never knew had something in common with you, and keeping updates on how people are doing in your life. In a nutshell facebook can be used in so many ways to express yourself.
But in Amanda Tatro situation, her expressing is going to cost her banishment in a university and maybe charges against her.
“The University of Minnesota mortuary science student was upset and angry after breaking up with her boyfriend, and told her Facebook friends that she was "looking forward to Monday's embalming therapy. ... Give me room, lots of aggression to be taken out with a trocar [a sharp surgical instrument used in embalming]."
Now she's banned from campus because three instructors in the mortuary science program felt threatened after being made aware of her Facebook posts, prompting a police investigation.
According to the police report, Amanda Tatro, 29, followed her first posting with one that read: "I still want to stab a certain someone in the throat with a trocar though. Hmmm ... perhaps I will spend the evening updating my 'Death List #5' and making friends with the crematory guy. I do know the code ..."
"Death List #5" is a reference to the movie "Kill Bill."
When Tatro got to class Monday, she was patted down and questioned by University of Minnesota police.
The instructors had shared their concerns with police, with one saying that she "did not feel comfortable having [the student] in the lab due to the remarks on Facebook," according to the police report.
Tatro told police that the posts were "just me venting," she said. "I got dumped, which is never a nice thing. I was bitter and really angry about it. For whatever reason, this professor took it personally."
Police are not filing charges and consider the matter closed, U spokesman Daniel Wolter said by e-mail.
Privacy law prevents the U from commenting on the specifics of Tatro's case, but Wolter said that "in a case such as this, the case is typically referred to our Office for Student Conduct and Academic Integrity, which will interview the student, review evidence and make some kind of finding."
It's hardly the first time a posting on the popular social media site has led to police being alerted. Nationwide, more dire threats have led to charges.”
Some people just never learn that social networking sites can’t make you (unless you are Souljah Boi) but it can damn sure break you. The moral of the story is this
“Unless you are anonymous, a superb hacker, and good at covering your tracks (i.e Tiger (sorry, that one slipped)); never put your feelings on Facebook if they are ill will and people can see them.
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