VietNamNet Bridge – Educators have rung the alarm bell over the students’ degrading sense of morality after a lot of abuses and invectives on parents, teachers and friends were found on their Facebook.

The status “nguoi nha que chet het di” (hayseed, go die, all of you) appeared on a Hanoi student’s Facebook some days ago.

The Facebooker, after hearing the weather forecast about a new cold spell to attack the northern part of the country, posted the status.

The action of the Facebooker has been commented on as “inconsiderate,” and has been facing the violent criticism from the students’ community.

It was the Facebooker, who, some months ago, dropped the iron hearted words when talking about the people in the central region, who were struggling hard to survive the catastrophic typhoons.

While all the Vbiz’s artists were mourning over the death of Van Hiep, a well- known comic actor, who devoted his whole life to the nation’s performing arts, a Facebooker set up an anti-fan page, aiming to tarnish the good reputation of the artist amid the surprise of millions of netizens.

The Facebooker did not try to hide himself. He showed his real Facebook on the anti-fan page he set up, challenging people, insulting and dropping ruthless words when talking about the northern people.

Educators have expressed their worries about the increased regional discrimination. The students from Thanh Hoa province and the central region are always inferior to others in the eyes of Hanoi’s students. Meanwhile, southern students don’t like the ones from the north.

The fact that a student from the Hanoi University of Business and Technology was stabbed to death stunned the public. However, a Facebooker, NTH, taking no notice to the miserable condition of the victim’s family, wrote ruthless words about the family members and sneered at the victim’s friends’ sympathy.

On March 8, when Vietnamese sons and daughters expressed their gratefulness to the mothers on the International Women’s Day, a male student with the nickname Breakingboy hurled a stream of abuses at his mother on Facebook.

A female student in Hanoi has become famous for her dirty words and the curses on her teacher, named H, a literature teacher.

The student believed that H was not fair when giving exam marks, which was the reason why she usually got bad marks.

More and more vulgar words and behaviors have been found, which have made parents feel worried about their children. Facebook has become the forum for a lot of students to speak ill of others. Especially, some parents have suggested prohibiting students to access to Facebook like prohibiting them to play online games.

However, students have sneered at the idea of prohibiting students to access to Facebook, while other parents have admitted that it is unfeasible to do impose the ban.

Tam, a parent, who has a daughter going to the Hanoi-Amsterdam High School for the Gifted, said it is nearly impossible to prohibit the girl to access to Facebook everyday, because Facebook is now the main communication channel for her and her friends.

Professor Van Nhu Cuong, a well-known educator, believes that it is necessary to prohibit students to use bad language on Facebook. However, it seems to be unfeasible, because Facebook is a “virtual world.”

Compiled by C. V