Officials at Osceola immediately took steps to prevent further misuse. He expressed disappointment with the way Osceola students were using #Life and said the company quickly removed explicit content.
It was an uncomfortable moment for Osceola, which espouses no-nonsense values and strong parental involvement, 'like schools used to be.'Ī founder of #Life, Griffin Anderson, described the app as an anonymous photo-sharing tool that lets students check out what their peers were doing. School leaders held an emergency faculty meeting Wednesday. Some people reported girls leaving the cafeteria in tears and expressing horror that images of them had been made public. School administrators 'were made aware that some of the pictures were insulting or upsetting or possibly even illegal that should not be available online,' school spokeswoman Melanie Marquez Parra said.īy that point, students said, word of the photos was churning through the high school rumor mill. Later in the day, as news of the uproar at Osceola spread, the founders of #Life said they had temporarily removed the app from the iTunes store.
