Even if the population gets beyond rudimentary receptive literacy and finally reaches fully functional productive literacy, their earlier rhetorical mistakes may haunt them. Impulsively posted messages by youthful senders can have remarkably irreversible consequences, as several recent cases demonstrate. For example, danah boyd has described how a MySpace page with gang-affiliated material almost compromised a high school student’s college admission, and Tracy Mitrano tells the story of a college senior who was turned down for employment by a prestigious firm on the grounds of his compromising Facebook page.