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Just as Darwin predicted, humiliating photos will continue to appear on the Internet, posted by the very people being humiliated in the photos. But eventually, society will cease to care. Or will it?
msnbc.com wants to know what you think? Will people stop humiliating themselves on Facebook -- or will the rest of us stop paying attention?
I am an educator and I also have a Facebook page. My students are middle school and high school age and have repeatedly tried to add me as a friend. My rule is that they cannot do this until after they have graduated. Even then, I have those students under a special list that only allows them to see certain things in my profile. If you are in a profession that has an expectation for you to lead a certain lifestyle outside of your profession, then it is up to you as an individual to monitor your public persona. Or at least set your profile so that only the people you want to see it can do so. Its common sense. As well all know, however, not everyone has that.
#1 - Tue Dec 30, 2008 1:12 PM ESTKelsey-- agreed. I was a TA for the UMass History Department 2006-2008, and finally limited access to my information after recieving phone calls from students at home, and decided not to "friend" either students or professors until after the class in question, or my degree, was completed. Even then only a very few students actually made it to the list.
Some of my other colleagues also deny "friend requests" from their students until after graduation. The other rule of thumb is "don't post anything you wouldn't want anyone to see"... though old 1980s photos of my mullet have recently begun to appear on some folks' pages in "Old College Days' albums. (Hey it was the 1980s-- everybody had a mullet. That's my story and I'm sticking to it...)
Still, the students should be aware that we, their professors and instructors, are on Facebook and can see their pages-- and should balance sob stories about the tough times that keep them from attending class against pictures of dorm-room drinking, &c...
After a decade or so, no one will care about weird Internet photos of each other. These "kids" are going grow up to be business owners and bosses someday, and they're used to it.
It's just another example of changing cultures. No big thing. Everybody just needs to relax.
#2 - Wed Dec 31, 2008 12:59 PM ESTThe old technology limited outlandish through constraint brought on from limited quantities (Polaroid's) also bulky and lacked ease to having days to wait for development that may have been censored and destroyed if not cost was an issue because if such was developed you would pay then as well as later as copy's were often kept. The ease of digital and instant online short circuited stop and think.
In this end I' am somewhat skeptical about having any thing online with Face Book or others that I would not have a problem with my mother being able to view and personal info should be administered only to those trusted not on transmittable electronic media as hacked media seems to pop up quite often at the hands of the ruthless and curious.
Strange we seem to like to be noticed and will go to great lengths and costs to do so only to regret.
#3 - Sat Jan 3, 2009 7:38 AM ESTWe as teens are dumb. It'll take a few generations for lessons to be learned. And by then society will probably stop caring. Funny how that works, isn't it? lol
#4 - Sat Jan 3, 2009 5:37 PM ESTI still think back to what a wise old man once told me; "be responsible for your actions. " Do not whine, cry, or look for a lawyer the next time you were stupid and put private information in the public domain. I continually recieve invitations to be a "friend" on Myspace or Facebook and I prefer to not let everyone know everything about my private life; I will actually call, visit, or talk to them; a rare concept today.
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