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UsaSatsui's Youtube Channel · Posted: May 22 2010 10:01 am

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/08/education/edlife/facebooks.html

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AS far as Kyle Stoneman is concerned, the campus police were the ones who started the Facebook wars. "We were just being, well, college students, and they used it against us," says Mr. Stoneman, a senior at George Washington University in Washington. He is convinced that the campus security force got wind of a party he and some buddies were planning last year by monitoring Facebook.com, the phenomenally popular college networking site. The officers waited till the shindig was in full swing, Mr. Stoneman grouses, then shut it down on discovering under-age drinking.

Mr. Stoneman and his friends decided to fight back. Their weapon of choice? Facebook, of course.

Once again they used the site, which is visited by more than 80 percent of the student body, to chat up a beer blast. But this time, when the campus police showed up, they found 40 students and a table of cake and cookies, all decorated with the word "beer." "We even set up a cake-pong table," a twist on the beer-pong drinking game, he says. "The look on the faces of the cops was priceless." As the coup de grâce, he posted photographs of the party on Facebook, including a portrait of one nonplussed officer.

Wizard Joined: Jun 12 2009 Posts: 4209

This.

Wizard Joined: Jun 12 2009 Posts: 4209

This is why I joined college.

Posted: May 22 2010 11:12 am

Ha ha that's awesome.

Posted: May 22 2010 11:14 am

If they didn't want this to happen the first time, they should have used a private channel. It's funny as a form of protest, but completely unnecessary.

Banned Joined: Sep 13 2008 Posts: 3129

Ha that's great.
The beer is a lie, this time

Posted: May 22 2010 01:14 pm

I read about that a while ago, that's pretty fuckin' funny.

Posted: May 22 2010 03:21 pm

its kind of funny, but really a total waste of time and effort.

Joined: Aug 04 2009 Posts: 2515

It's really surreal for me to think that people in US go to university and can't drink legally. Especially since i could legally drink before i started university. Hell the whole University experience here is based around alcohol, some universities in England try to make you go there by citing it as the "party central". It's a really odd cultural comparison.

Joined: Mar 18 2010 Location: Tuonela Posts: 299

^ pretty much the same in all of Europe, I've gathered. Nobody's under 18 at the universities anyway. I bet Iceland is in recession because their legal drinking age starts at 20.

UsaSatsui's Youtube Channel · Posted: May 22 2010 07:42 pm

Alowishus wrote:

It's really surreal for me to think that people in US go to university and can't drink legally. Especially since i could legally drink before i started university. Hell the whole University experience here is based around alcohol, some universities in England try to make you go there by citing it as the "party central". It's a really odd cultural comparison.

Drinking and driving was a real problem in the US (still is), particularly among teenagers, so a while back there was a push to raise the drinking age from 18 to 21. And it worked.

It's not popular.

Posted: May 22 2010 08:01 pm

That is a really lame prank. Whoops, instead of beer its CAKE instead! How about a decoy party so you can actually drink a huge amount?

Posted: May 22 2010 08:29 pm

It bothers me that the students were really so stupid as to organize an illegal event on a public network like Facebook, where authority figures are likely to find out.

Wizard Joined: Jun 12 2009 Posts: 4209

People don't like to think of the consequences before they start shit.