Who is reading what you put on social web sites? Large colleges have coaches who monitor what their athletes put on Web sites like MySpace and Facebook. Now there is a program they can purchase to do the monitoring for them in real-time. If it finds objectionable words or phrases, it sends an email alert to the designated college official with a link to the page.
The program named YouDiligence was shown at the NCAA annual convention and is discussed in today's Chronicle of Higher Education. Wouldn't this be a violation of 1st amendment rights? Legal experts say if students publish information over the Web, it is public and anyone can search for it. Why does this make me feel queasy? Maybe it depends what they do with the information. On the other hand, I can't believe what students and others put out for public consumption.
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