An SIU-Edwardsville student posted $1,000 bail Thursday after being charged with a bomb threat he wrote on the popular social networking Web site Facebook.

Stone's Facebook status read, "I'm going to bomb the school because it's obvious we cannot co-exist" Thursday afternoon, according to the Alestle, SIUE's campus newspaper.

As of Thursday night, there was no Facebook profile for Stone under the SIUE network.

University police arrested Stone, a 21-year-old junior from Rochester studying history, Wednesday afternoon after one of his Facebook friends reported the threat to police, SIUE spokesman Greg Conroy said.

Conroy said the Facebook friend, who he would not identify, told authorities the location of the Edwardsville fast food restaurant where Stone worked. Stone was apprehended there.

Stone gave the police permission to search his van and on-campus residence, and after conducting the search the police determined Stone was not capable of following through with the threat, Conroy said.

Stone was charged by the Illinois State's Attorney's office Thursday with a special misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge. Conroy said the university also has the ability to punish the student.

"It could range from a slap on the hand to expulsion," he said.

The Dean of Students will conduct an investigation to see if Stone violated the SIUE Student Code of Conduct, he said.

Stone is also the president of the Edwardsville chapter of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, and his actions could affect his status as president, Conroy said.

Conroy said he has been at the university 20 years and could not remember any arrests stemming from Facebook activity or any arrests made in correlation with bomb threats.

"In the past we've had one or two bomb threats during exam week, and they call in threats and hang up before we could trace it," he said. "In this event we were able to get the man's name because it was on Facebook."

Amanda Isringhaus, a junior from Okawville studying elementary education at SIUE, said she received an e-mail describing the event from university administrators Thursday. She said she wished the administration had a better way of getting the word out.

"I know e-mail, they probably have to do that, but they could have notified our instructors and our instructors could have told us that. I just feel like some schools don't make a big deal out of things, but something needs to start happening to let students know what's going on," she said. "Thirty-two students died because of it (at Virginia Tech), and I just think things would have went differently. Apparently people aren't just talking, because things are starting to happen in these schools."

Conroy said he did not know if the school shooting massacre at Virginia Tech, which claimed the lives of 32 students and faculty along with the shooter Monday, was considered in the way police handled the case.

"We would take any bomb threat seriously," he said.

Conroy said the case sends a message to all Facebook users.