Yet again, Facebook appears to be at the heart of a scandal. Except, this time the scandal isn’t so — well, scandalous. My friend Sarah shared this story with me this morning. It appears that Principal Thomas Murray at Danvers High School in Massachusetts objects to students saying “meep” in school. According to the Associated Press, students were using Facebook to coordinate a major disruption.

So the school sent out an automated call that told parents about the ban on meeping. Theoretically, that should be it. But GeekDad’s Matt Blum thinks that with other technological means, the kids will still find a way to meep. They’ll text message one another and coordinate that way.

Sarah Netter at ABC also wrote about the meeping. The word can mean whatever the speaker wants, according to her research at the Urban Dictionary. She also quoted Syracuse University professor Bob Thompson, who said he’d heard students meeping a year ago as they watched a TV show in class.

I remember people meeping online several years ago. I thought it’d died out. But apparently there’s a meep-renaissance going on at Danvers High, and the students were planning a meep-fest together. Thompson said it was probably engineered to drive school officials nuts. And now that it’s officially forbidden, that’ll egg the students on.

A lot of the writers who have written about the Danvers meeping have said that Beaker (of Muppet Labs) says “Meep.” However, he says “Mee.” Don’t believe me(e)?

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