Tuesday, July 17, 2012



For this assignment, you get to be bad.  You are a debit collector for Annie May, a new student loan company.  Your company offers private student loans at almost outrageous interest rates.  You trick hapless students by offering an additional three-month forbearance on their repayment plan if they friend Annie May on Facebook.  Most of your chump-student-borrowers add you to their page, unaware of your sinister plot.  For any student who goes into default, you, as well-paid representative of Annie May, get to flood his or her Facebook page with messages regarding owed debt.   Here's what you need to do for full credit:

 (1)Write a brief action plan of how you intend to legally taunt your borrowers on their Facebook page.

(2) Compose a brief post, FB-style, in which you demand your money.  Make this as threatening as you can without crossing the harassment line.

(3)As a creditor, you have rights as well.  Discuss how your borrower might accidentally reveal his or her bad spending on Facebook?

(4)In Chapter 4, we covered ethics.  Do you think a bill collector's taunts violate any of the four social ethics discussed in the text?  Why or why not.

*Remember, this is worth 40 points.  I wish you the best of luck.

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