Computer Help Kansas City: Schools can't stop wondering what students are up to on Facebook

It's graduation season, which means that students, teachers, and administrators alike are all thinking about one thing: Facebook.

Schools around the globe have a fascination with—indeed, sometimes a fixation on—the social networking site and what their students are getting up to online. Questions about the appropriate response to student material on social networking sites have existed for years, but they're exploding into serious policy questions (and even laws) as such sites become almost ubiquitous teen hangouts.

For instance: can school administration use social networking to keeps tabs on what students do during the school day? What about things they do after leaving school property?