COMMENTARY| What happens when a young teenager disrespects her parents on Facebook? For Tommy Jordan, it meant posting a video on YouTube and Facebook, putting 10 hollow point bullets into his daughter's laptop and grounding her for the foreseeable future. Did he go too far?

I don't think so. There's a fine line between too much punishment and not enough, but I think the father's response was right on target. He even goes on to explain on his Facebook page why he did what he did.

In an explanation in response to a Toronto Star question from Anita Li, Jordan wrote, " Because that's how I was raised. If I did something embarrassing to my parents in public (such as a grocery store) I got my tail tore up right there in front of God and everyone, right there in the store. I put the reprisal in exactly the same medium she did, in the exact same manner. "

I can't fault him for his thinking. His daughter embarrassed him and his family on a public forum, so he posted the punishment on a public forum. For his effort, he is receiving almost equal responses of support and condemnation.

He is also receiving exceptional amounts of media attention that he was obviously not prepared for. On Friday about 3:30 p.m. he wrote, "Never again in my entire life will I ever do anything that garnishes this much attention, both positive and negative." It sounds to me like he's learned as much of a lesson as his daughter. The Internet is a very public place, and sometimes the things we intend to be fairly private become very public very quickly.

As far as his punishment goes, I think what he did was correct. He needed to make a solid point that what his daughter did was unacceptable. But I would not have pumped 10 rounds into a shiny black laptop that I had just spent $130 and half a day upgrading. Instead of shooting it, I would have claimed the laptop for myself.

After all, laptops are not cheap, and as much as he was griping about money and the cost of things, I'm surprised he didn't do something more productive with that laptop. He could have kept it for himself, given it to his wife or donated it to charity to help a student who couldn't afford a laptop.

Those would have been much better solutions that pumping it full of lead. He could have also made his daughter present the laptop to the needy student. That would have driven his point home just as well as shooting it.