A Quick Lesson in Responsibility: In response to woman fired due to Facebook comments

This morning I listened to a story on the radio about a 56-year old woman who was fired from her teaching job of 30 years after posting some comments she shouldn’t have on Facebook. Now she’s had to dip into her retirement fund to pay her rent.At first, I felt bad for her. How awful.

Then she goes on to say how unfair it was that she was fired. She had no idea that her comments were not private, because Facebook changed their privacy setting. She was posting things on only her friend’s pages....