Facebook Is Like A Tatoo

Posted on September 21, 2008 
Filed Under Life, Parenting, Social Issues

Facebook is huge, with over 100 million users. If you have teens in your home, like me, you’ll want to monitor carefully your child’s participation in such social networking sites. Also, tell him or her about unintended consequences of using such sites - like a tatoo, Facebook comments and antics are rather permanent - and apparent to others - as seen in this article.

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One Response to “Facebook Is Like A Tatoo”

  1. M todd on September 25th, 2008 5:57 pm

    We live in a day when even a casual reference can become a major item later in life. With the Internet a comment, video from a cell phone, or email can make its way around the world and destroy a person’s future.

    In some ways it is not right, because if everyone’s life was placed open to all to see even an isolated incident could become a major news story for all the world to speculate. Even the most casual comment taken out of context can turn a regular person into a villain being judged by the world without the benefit of a jury.

    With TV, radio and print there is a human filter, of editors and directors deciding what can be seen and what is the context of the act. But with the Internet everyone has the power to broadcast some one’s personal life without the benefit of any human discernment. Once it is out there, there is no turning back.

    There was a famous photo used by Mccarthy to discredit a military office. The picture shows the officer having a clandestine meeting with a suspected communist. In the picture the officer looks like he is talking to the suspected communist, but later the negative was found and the un-cropped picture told a totally different story. In reality the officer and suspected communist were actually walking from a plane and in reality the officer just happened to be walking next to the person in question with dozens of others.

    A lot of what is passed off as evidence today thanks to the Internet is in reality out of context statements, isolated incidents and in some cases out and out lies.

    Teens do stupid things, that is part of what teens do. Yes, they should be advised that what seems cool to them could be a potential problem. But there may come a day when we know so much about each other we are all disqualified to do anything.

    We should all be mindful of what we send over the Internet because our words could become immortal and ruin your life forever.

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