I guess like anything else, Facebook can be used for good or for bad. New York Magazine’s recent article, (April 2008), Revolt at Horace Mann, discusses how students at an elite New York private school waged a war against a teacher by creating a Facebook group about her. It will be interesting to see how these kids fare in the college admissions process that is just around the corner for them. Once they realize the long-lasting impact (a.k.a. digital dirt) of their actions, they will think twice about posting anything negative on a social networking site.

But on the flip side, I see many people leveraging their Facebook page in intelligent and meaningful ways and I have to believe that the potential for good outweighs the bad.