Med Students' Stupidity on Facebook

LazyBum201
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:18:07 +0000

Actually, I think those using the privacy settings are the more likely to have stuff they don’t want others seeing on their pages and setting themselves up for more trouble than those who don’t use privacy settings and so don’t have any sense of false security (as even with privacy settings, “friends” share the pages with lots of people who the initial “friend” has never even met…I know our son was recently told by a friend he’s had for years, “I have showed your facebook photo to a bunch of people and over and over again they say things like, ‘Yup, he looks special’” and our son didn’t even think to ask, “What are you doing showing my page to other people?”). It’s best if people use a privacy setting but ALSO try to keep their pages such that they wouldn’t be upset if an employer, parent, or (future) child ever saw what was on there. What gets tough here is how other people can post photos and messages as they wish on your own page and countless people can view it before you ever even know what’s there if you’ve not checked your own facebook page before those people do.