This is… Facebook?

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.