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Years ago, when I was an associate principal in a high school, I had a student report to me that a Facebook page under my name in which a few students were viewing. This was relatively "early" in the years of FB, so guidance on fake accounts was limited at that time. Since I was already a Facebook user, I was able to find the page easily, but not able to best determine who or how it was set up. Facebook has pretty restrictive access to this information with the exception of law enforcement, so our school worked with local law enforcement to contact Facebook. They were able to track down the IP Address and the email used to set up the account and contact the student involved in setting up this account. While the account was pretty minimal, there was at least one disparaging remark on the page. As the recipient of this, it was pretty upsetting, although my overall take away from it was that I was encouraged by the students who reported it and tried to "make it right." Interestingly enough, the student who set it up was what I would call "a good kid" who made a really bad decision in an attempt to "be funny." I often recall this situation when dealing with online situations, as it helps me to be empathetic to the victim as well as gives good perspective to the perpetrator, as I know full well that without guidance, even "good kids" make bad decisions.
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