Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Maryland students use candid Facebook photos to fill out yearbook

Some students at a high school in Bethesda, Md., thought their privacy had been invaded by the yearbook staff when it used photos from their Facebook sites to fill up the yearbook:

In addition to the usual images of blurry hallway traffic, lockers and teens slumped at desks, this year's Walter Johnson Windup included scenes of student life clearly not intended for the yearbook: impromptu snapshots at house parties and random weekend gatherings; portraits taken at arm's length on cellphones; and at least one image of students at what looks like a tailgate party, drinking from telltale red plastic cups.

One student, venting in the school newspaper, said seeing her Facebook pictures in the yearbook was "kind of stalker-y."

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