Med Students' Stupidity on Facebook

rainbowwings11
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:39:38 +0000

We aren’t snooping, snooping is looking in people’s windows. How can you snoop when its on a site that others can look and and, gasp, share with anyone and everyone.

Cutting lose, who cares, but why the NEED to advertise it to each other? isn’t the cutting lose enough, or does it need to be shared, and yes it is sharing with pretty much the whole world, whether you want to admit it or not.

People immature enough to have to share their private lives of drunken behavior, etc, in pictures, are also immature enough to get even with people, take those pictures and post them elsewhere, and whatever. Once you put up any pictures, on the web, they are no longer private, they are public, regardless of “privacy settings”.

Friends turn on each other, happens all the time. If these adults didn’t advertise to each other their funtimes, on the internet, we would have no idea. Its not snooping.

It is just amazing that people think facebook or anything else is private.

Imagine this, and its not so far fetched. A girl sees her bf in those pictures, and they breakup. How easy would it be to do something with those pictures? Pretty easy. Drag it, print it, share it elsewhere. Send it anonmously to the boss or the parents.

Again, cutting loose is fine, but this need to advertise it and keep reliving it, and showing off or whatever is the motivation is not real smart, especially when the pictures are tacky, stupid, and possibly illegal

My Ds have lots of pictures on facebook, but they are carefully edited. If they are drinking or doing something “wrong”, you would never no it from the pictures. They are smart enough to know that once its out there, regardless of the so-called privacy settings, its out there.