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Meg Lanker-Simons Has Previous Conviction

AP — Thu, 16 May 2013 20:22:12 +0000

LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — A Laramie woman accused of posting an anonymous Facebook threat against herself has a previous conviction involving a 2005 gun-waving incident.

Court records show Meg Lanker-Simons pleaded guilty to aggravated assault in May 2006 and was sentenced to six years of probation

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UW Crushes Admin Speaks Out

Trevor T. Trujillo — Sat, 04 May 2013 17:30:32 +0000

An exclusive interview with the anonymous administrator of the controversial UW Crushes Facebook page. He discusses the site, the controversy, and his opinion on Meg Lanker-Simons

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Meg Lanker-Simons Cited For Making UW Crushes Post

Trevor T. Trujillo — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:52:42 +0000

University of Wyoming Police have issued a citation to Meg Lanker-Simons for a charge of interference. According to the citation "Subject admitted to making a controversial post on UW Crushes webpage and then lied about not doing it."

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Anti-Rape Culture Demonstration Mounted at UW [VIDEO]

Trevor T. Trujillo — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 02:02:42 +0000

Chants, signs and speeches took center stage at the University of Wyoming campus Monday morning during a demonstration against rape culture.

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UW Crushes Page Removed From Facebook

Trevor T. Trujillo — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:26:32 +0000

A Facebook page that recently came under fire in Laramie appears to have been removed from Facebook.

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Facebook Page Sparks UW Controversy

Trevor T. Trujillo — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:10:16 +0000

A Facebook page called UW Crushes has come under fire after a harshly worded statment was posted on the page about a University of Wyoming Student.

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U.S. Marshals in Wyo. Turn to Facebook to Help Catch Fugitives

Trevor T. Trujillo — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 20:56:04 +0000

The Wyoming offices of the U.S. Marshals' Department have recently taken to facebook in an attempt to spread the word about fugitives in the Wyoming area.

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Your Facebook Copyright Notice Status Update Is Bogus

Jeremy Taylor — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 15:58:14 +0000

If you've been on Facebook over the last few days, you've probably seen that some of your friends have posted a copyright notice as their status update.

The message suggests that the poster has copyrighted all the material on their Facebook page thanks to the authority of something called the Berner Convention. Here is the full text of the update:

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Did Facebook Release Your Private Information?

Jon Green — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 01:01:08 +0000

Monday afternoon, we posted a story about Facebook inadvertently publishing many users' private messages in their Timeline history. Facebook subsequently claimed the mix-up was a false alarm: people were mis-remembering old wall posts as private messages.

Many Facebook users, however, continued to claim they had in fact had private messages released into the wild. I remain uncertain about my own Timeline page - which remains locked down at this point. So did Facebook mess up, or not?

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UPDATED: Facebook Says Privacy Breach 'False' Rumor – BBC

Jon Green — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 19:00:42 +0000

Update: The BBC is reporting the postings are actually public posts. It can be difficult to remember what's public and what's not when dealing with messages/posts that are four or five years old. But this is a good reminder that anything on the internet - even if you think it to be private - probably isn't.

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Would You Get a Root Canal Before You'd Give Up Facebook?

Shauna Wright — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 19:21:21 +0000

People who love social media really love it — and a new poll shows just what they’d be willing to do before they’d consider giving it up.

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School Forces Students to Delete Facebook Pages

Shauna Wright — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:30:54 +0000

Schools these days seem to have no compunctions about policing students’ use of social media. An Indiana teenager was recently expelled for swearing in a tweet, and now a Brooklyn, New York school is forcing its charges to delete their Facebook accounts — or face expulsion themselves.

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Do You Set Your Social Media to Private? – Survey of the Day

Jeremy Taylor — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 21:31:08 +0000

These days, just about everybody is on some form of social media. However, that doesn’t mean they want to share their information with everybody.

According to a Pew Research Center survey of 2,267 adults, 58 percent of social media users set their profile to private.

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How Are You Adapting to Facebook and Other Social Media? – Survey of the Day

Jeremy Taylor — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 05:51:05 +0000

Now that people are getting more used to being on social networks like Facebook they seem to be getting more picky about whom they are sharing their information with.

According to a survey from the Pew Research Center, 63 percent of social media network users removed people from their friend rolls in 2011, which was up from the 56 percent of those who did so in 2009.

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