As far as Kyle Stoneman is concerned, the campus police were the ones who started the Facebook wars. "We were just being, well, college students, and they used it against us," says Mr. Stoneman, a senior at George Washington University in Washington. He is convinced that the campus security force got wind of a party he and some buddies were planning last year by monitoring Facebook.com, the phenomenally popular college networking site. The officers waited till the shindig was in full swing, Mr. Stoneman grouses, then shut it down on discovering under-age drinking.See what fun GW would be, Kyla?
Mr. Stoneman and his friends decided to fight back. Their weapon of choice? Facebook, of course.
Once again they used the site, which is visited by more than 80 percent of the student body, to chat up a beer blast. But this time, when the campus police showed up, they found 40 students and a table of cake and cookies, all decorated with the word "beer." "We even set up a cake-pong table," a twist on the beer-pong drinking game, he says. "The look on the faces of the cops was priceless." As the coup de grĂ¢ce, he posted photographs of the party on Facebook, including a portrait of one nonplussed officer.
Monday, January 09, 2006
I know Kyla is a fan of Facebook. I actually don't think facebook.com existed when she started at Yale, but they had a Yale version of the "face book". Like Google, it has evolved into a verb: when someone says they're thinking of setting you up with their friend, you facebook them to see what they look like and find out who their friends are. So, I thought maybe Kyla would enjoy this story (courtesy of BoingBoing again):
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