Teen's Facebook brag costs dad $80,000 lawsuit settlement

[FarCenter]

When Dana Snay learned her father had been awarded a cash settlement in an age-discrimination lawsuit against his former employer, the Miami-based Gulliver Preparatory School, she couldn't resist bragging about it.

"Mama and Papa Snay won the case against Gulliver," the teen posted to her 1,200 Facebook friends. "Gulliver is now officially paying for my vacation to Europe this summer. SUCK IT."

It was a bit of boasting that could end up costing the Snays the entire $80,000 (£47,750) settlement, reports the Miami Herald.

When Gulliver got wind of post, which didn't take long, as Dana was a former student, the school refused to pay a dime because the father had signed a confidentiality agreement - and on Wednesday a Florida appeals court found in its favour.

The story has writers drawing conclusions about the foolishness of today's youth and the perils of social media.

Elie Mystal on the blog Above the Law calls it "a new low for the Millennial generation".

"Remember when all you had to worry about was your daughter posting naked selfies of herself on Facebook?" he writes. "Now, things are worse."

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-26393546

[Drunken Irishman]

1. Dumb, dumb, dumb...

[Fumesucker]

2. This came up a couple of days ago

It was the *father* that was dumb, he agreed to the terms and then ran his mouth.

[Drunken Irishman]

3. Sounds like he passed down his dumb genes to his daughter.

[Fumesucker]

5. The daughter wasn't party to the settlement

Her post was used as evidence that the father broke the settlement he signed, he was to tell *no* *one* of his settlement, evidently specifically including his family.

[Drunken Irishman]

7. Dumb family all around it sounds like...

The dad for telling his daughter and the daughter for being dumb enough to tell the world.

[redqueen]

9. Glad people noticed that.

Interesting that the beeb seems to be more focused on the teenaged girl, and not the father, who violated the terms of his agreement.

[Scootaloo]

4. Ah yes, because it's about the "generation"

is the beeb trying to compete with the daily mail or something?

[Warren DeMontague]

6. Generalizations suck

and are the signpost of a lazy, non intellectually curious mind.

Or a Scorpio.

[unblock]

8. does this mean the case is no longer "settled" and the father can resume the suit?

i don't know how it works if a settlement doesn't work out as intended.

sounds like the school hasn't shelled out any money yet. the situation might be different if the family had already received some of it and then violated the terms of the agreement.