WELL TO ALL YOUNG PEOPLE AND THEIR PARENTS….SOCIAL MEDIA WILL GET YOU” IF YOU POST THE WRONG THING ON THERE…AND THAT’S WHAT HAPPENED TO SOME INCOMING FRESHMAN AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY…after the school discovered the individuals were posting explicit and obscene memes in a Facebook chat group that advocated sexual assault and mocked the death of children.
The potential students began sharing posts in a private chat group that splintered off from a larger one of about 100 students who contacted each other through the school’s official Class of 2021 Facebook page that was meant for new students to meet each other, the Harvard Crimson first reported on Sunday.
The online group was originally meant to share memes on popular culture, and started off as “lighthearted” but then a few members began getting inappropriate, an incoming student who was a part of the larger group told the Harvard Crimson.
The students who began posting the explicit memes started their own subsect and demanded that members of the larger group post provocative memes in order to gain admission in their chat room..
When Harvard got wind of the group, school officials pulled the acceptance offers of about 10 incoming students who were a part of the online chat group.
The Crimson reported that the school’s investigation into the matter involved university officials asking members of the group to send them every meme they posted.
“We do not comment publicly on the admissions status of individual applicants,” said University spokesperson Rachael Dane in a statement to NBC News.
source: NBC News
