"For one glorious hour Sunday night, it looked as though Brooklyn Technical High School’s 4,900 students would not have to drag themselves out of bed at 7 a.m. for the first day of school after the long winter break. An e-mail message, purportedly from a school administrator, was sent to student government leaders saying that a construction accident had forced the building to close.
The students, thinking the message was real, passed it along via the many online channels regularly used by this tech-savvy school, reaching thousands of students within minutes by e-mail, Facebook and Twitter. “This was like a godsend,” said senior Nazary Nebeluk, 17. “I was doing my homework and I just threw it down and said ‘Yes!’�”"
The students, thinking the message was real, passed it along via the many online channels regularly used by this tech-savvy school, reaching thousands of students within minutes by e-mail, Facebook and Twitter. “This was like a godsend,” said senior Nazary Nebeluk, 17. “I was doing my homework and I just threw it down and said ‘Yes!’�”"
