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[Truean]

Plus using someone else's facebook password can also be considered criminal hacking.

Though Facebook hasn't commented on it publicly:
It violates the terms of service of the website/they can close down your account. Whether or not they'd do this: who knows, but they could.

The person has not made the information "publicly available," rather they've restricted access to it via privacy settings. If it were publicly available information, then there'd be no need to gain access to it. Only certain people, "friends" may view this information. So a potential employer demanding access to information just because you showed it to a few friends, makes no sense at all. You told your friends, you did not make it public and specifically took steps to keep the general public from seeing it....

That certain schools aren't teaching cursive anymore is odd. How are you supposed to get a signature? We aren't going to adapt to that one easily if we ever do. This is the problem with short sighted people being involved in education. "O everything's going computerized now, we don't need to teach cursive ." I make it a point to both teach certain children I care about cursive (which their parents appreciate), and to talk to administrators who champion not teaching it. The fact that you admins and all your over-privileged, yuppie friends have neat new smart phones, doesn't mean cursive signatures are dead.

[GlyphGryph]

You don't need to learn cursive to have a signature, as signatures don't have to be in cursive. (In the states where I've looked at the law, anyways, which is only like 3)

Cursive IS dead, and it was never actually useful. It's a waste of valuable education time.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I don't think the schools should teach cursive anymore. It's a waste of time. Teach the kids how to sign their own names and leave it, because that's all cursive is good for now.

My elementary school practiced us to blisters about writing in cursive, because, as they put it: "Everything after the fifth grade has to be written in cursive or it won't be accepted". Fucking liars. I have never written in cursive since, other than to sign my name, even though how to do it is seared into my mind.

[GlyphGryph]

And I, like many other people, don't even sign my name in anything approaching the "cursive" they teach in schools.

[Levi]

My elementary school practiced us to blisters about writing in cursive, because, as they put it: "Everything after the fifth grade has to be written in cursive or it won't be accepted". Fucking liars. I have never written in cursive since, other than to sign my name, even though how to do it is seared into my mind.

Ha, that was my experience too.  Heck, in university I was always told NOT to use cursive or else it wouldn't be accepted.

[GlyphGryph]

Same here.

[Frumple]

Heh... yeah, they taught us cursive in like... 3rd, 4th grade? At this point (Got BA, etc., so forth), I've used it and seen it used so little I'm completely incapable of writing in it and barely capable of reading it. I can sign my name in it, but that's about it.

We should probably be spending the time we teach cursive teaching actual other languages instead of just a fancy font

Why do we teach cursive nowadays, anyway?

[JoshuaFH]

I always thought it was because it was flowy and pretty.

[Luke_Prowler]

Because it has formal use. Kinda like learning to put on a tie. Sure, you don't need it for the most part but some people do appreciate it when you put the extra effort in

[penguinofhonor]

My elementary school practiced us to blisters about writing in cursive, because, as they put it: "Everything after the fifth grade has to be written in cursive or it won't be accepted". Fucking liars. I have never written in cursive since, other than to sign my name, even though how to do it is seared into my mind.

There was a super-religious priest at my school who only accepted cursive. He left the year before I would have been in his class. I would have failed.

[Darvi]

I write faster in cursive. But then again, my writing also becomes near illegible.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Because it has formal use. Kinda like learning to put on a tie. Sure, you don't need it for the most part but some people do appreciate it when you put the extra effort in.

No they don't. When I have to read someone else's cursive, my first thought is "Oh sweet Nicodemus is this even English what the hell am I looking at".

[penguinofhonor]

Cursive is more like knowing how to put on one of those ridiculous old-fashioned dresses with the sacks in them to make them poofier. Maybe not exactly, but it's gaudy and cumbersome and unnecessary.

[Frumple]

Because it has formal use. Kinda like learning to put on a tie. Sure, you don't need it for the most part but some people do appreciate it when you put the extra effort in

Well... sure, if it were part of some sort of formal etiquette class, that'd be kinda' interesting, probably quite useful, too.

But... they didn't teach us how to wear ties at my school Cursive and a degree of formal writing was it, and they were both separated by years, not part of some kind of integrated program.

Though a sort of social interaction class or series of classes inserted into public curriculum would probably help a lot of people a tremendous amount. But ahahaha yeah no. Not going to happen, at least not in public schools.

No they don't. When I have to read someone else's cursive, my first thought is "Oh sweet Nicodemus is this even English what the hell am I looking at".

Some people, MSH

Let us abhorers of cursive rejoice the number is shrinking

[Sirus]

I think we went off the rails here, unless writing in cursive (or not) is now considered a progressive issue.
FWIW, I'm in the same boat as Frumple, Levi, et al; Was taught cursive in elementary school, told that everything I ever wrote would have to be in cursive from then on, got to high school and no one used it. I can write my name in cursive, still remember most of the letters, but I haven't used it in any real capacity for years.