Do you know how private your online conversations really are? June Talvitie-Siple, PhD, a former high school teacher in Massachusetts, US, will take extra care regarding her online privacy settings in future. She discovered that her Facebook comment was on a public page and not private as she had thought. In the comment, she called her students “*germbags” . She resigned from her job due to the scandal that followed her posting. Talvitie-Siple claimed that the comment was a joke. But what have people made of her *gaffe?