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Students need to post on a computer the same way they should treat people in the non-cyber world: Write the way you want people to write about you.
I graduated high school in 1979. If someone spread rumors about you, it did hurt, but usually only lasted a few days or weeks and people moved on to someone else. The best part of high school, once you graduated no one cared about your past or were seldom remembered. With computers having permanent memories, any post, picture, rumor fleeting slander suddenly becomes a published (at least stored) libel.
A comment made concerning a teacher you had in tenth grade haunts you as a google search when you are twenty-two year old college graduate looking for your first job.
Somehow, someway we must inculcate into the digital user the idea of permanence in cyber space and the learner has a lifetime responsibility for their ideas and actions.
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