Does anyone have any experience with cadets and senior members positing negative comments on Facebook (and others sites) regarding other CAP members?
I haven seen this a few times and wonder what is the consequences for the members, if any? What can Commanders do?
Are you talking about a CAP member joining a CAP facebook group and spouting off things like "CAP stinks!" or are you talking about members in each others networks using profanity, etc with each other?
Quote from: jimmydeanno on April 06, 2009, 01:35:48 PM
Talking about members in each others networks using profanity, etc with each other?
If the posting is slanderous or libellous, it could be filed as a complaint through IG channels. (of course, if it's in Georgia, I'd rather not hear about it).
Usually in FB, you have to be in someone's friends list to see what they're posting.
I just recently had a Cadet send a request to tag a photo of a Senior Member that I took with a label that included profanity. I'm not sure if the Cadet in question thought that either it would be posted automatically or that I would for some reason approve it -- or maybe he thought that it was anonymous -- but I sent the Cadet a message telling him not to involve me in any personal issues he had with that SM. Haven't heard anything since.
Facebook has it's own 'rules of engagement' and you can report any abuse there: they're pretty good (and quick) about handling it.
Joe-nice pics: winter encampment, right? :)
Its a sign of the times. Internet tough guys spouting off in a manner they never would if that person was standing in front of them.
Seniors posting about cadets negatively on an internet site should be dealt with SWIFTLY and decisively with zero tolerance. Cadets posting about Seniors should also be dealt with in the same manner as if that cadet was to have confronted the Senior directly. I hold the Seniors to I higher standard. Of course, I tend to cut a cadet on cadet, cadet on Senior a LITTLE slack because they are young and are still learning, provided the comments didn't involve some sort of threat.
If it came to my attention, I would bring it through the legal officer. Depending on the nature of the incident involving a Senior writing comments to a cadet, I would probably have the 2b filled out and waiting. This is why if I ever have a cadet switch to Senior, they get a SERIOUS meeting with the DCC, myself and my Deputy about how life just changed.
While some of the online services have policy about nudity, profanity and such it still places the ball for dealing with it outside of CAP.
I would hope that the national staff were taking a serious look at this issue and comming up with a regulation addition that deals with conduct and makes it a clearly defined issue.
I had a Squadron CC come to be about a profane dialoge on a Facebook or Myspace issue with a cadet member who went active duty. The CAP channels were murky, so I reached out the the Active duty commander and they made it an order (with the full weight and force of the UCMJ behind it).
V/R