Australian Schools Deal With Facemash-Type Pages
High school students in Australia have become the latest to try to embrace the roots of Facebook, only to run afoul of authorities.
High school students in Australia have become the latest to attempt to embrace the roots of Facebook, only to run afoul of authorities.
The Brisbane Times reported that Browns Plains State High School in Brisbane became the latest school where students created “root rater” Facebook pages, which publicly rate other students’ sexual prowess.
For those who haven’t seen The Social Network, Facebook founder and Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg’s predecessor to Facebook was Facemash, which complied pictures of Harvard University students and encouraged users to choose which of the two displayed simultaneously was more attractive.
The root rater sites allow students to post a score of one through ten for the sexual performance of other students, as well as enabling explicit comments and links to the subjects’ Facebook pages.
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