This is… Facebook?

Posted by Chris on June 18th, 2008 filed in school, social software, web 2.0, young adults

Now here’s an interesting use of social networking software.  Apparently members of a particular Facebook group — numbering close to 30,000 — jotted “THIS IS SPARTA” in the essay portion of their AP Literature exam books and then crossed it out (as all test-takers are instructed when they don’t want something they’ve written to be counted by test examiners).  From the article:

During the week of exam grading, readers exchanged sightings of the graffito; one table even erected a sign proclaiming, “This is Sparta!” But the most telling detail of this adolescent prank is the cautionary instruction to draw a single line through the sentence.

Talk about guerilla, even if the gesture is, all things considered, little more than sound and fury.  And even as the proud recipient of a five on my AP Lit exam, it’s things like this that make me wish Facebook was around when I was in high school.

The entire story can be read here.  Discovered via Kirsten of Into the Stacks.

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