Profs - Be careful what you post on Facebook!

Apparently many people, including some profs, need to be reminded to double-check those privacy settings on their Facebook accounts before blasting into the ether status updates that last for time immemorial.  This story from the Chronicle of Higher Education is reporting on a new website called youropenbook.org that's a search engine which  allows the curious to look for potentially embarrassing (and career-ending) missives on Facebook users' walls. 

The playful editors at CHE had some fun with youropenbook.org by plugging in the words "professor" and "grading" just to see what would turn up.  Among the wall postings they found were these:

These status updates from actual profs make the YouTube video below about law professor grading habits seem more real than parody:

(jbl)