A Georgia appeals court has said that parents of a 7th grader can be held liable for what their son posted on Facebook. At issue is a Facebook post where the son created a fake Facebook profile of a classmate of his, posting distorted images of her to make her look fat (ah, junior high schoolers…) and then including „profane and sexually explicit comments on the page depicting her as racist and promiscuous.“ Alerted to this, the kid‘s school suspended him, and his parents grounded him. However, the Facebook page stayed up for 11 months. The parents of the girl then sued the parents of the boy, claiming that they had „breached a duty to supervise their child‘s use of a computer and an Internet account“ and, further, that they had „breached a duty to remove defamatory content existing on their property.“ The court rejected that second argument, but found the first argument at least reasonable enough to proceed to a jury.