"This is going on your permanent record" may be the most time-honored threat to wayward students, but in a digital age, it's actually true.
The record is the Web and not a manila file folder in the principal's office. Young people who tweet in offensive or controversial ways could find themselves called to account in forums far away from the classroom. The very nature of tweets — spontaneous and unfiltered and distributed well beyond a core group of friends — makes them potent and sometimes problematic.
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