"SU Officials' Use of Facebook creates problems for Students"

The article “SU Officials’ Use of Facebook creates problems for Students” presented a very common problem with today's social networking sites. For some reason people have no problem putting pictures up that might have them in unfavorable situations. For the student in the article it was referencing an event that he was planning. It's hard for one to be angry with School Officials for doing their part to ensure that this event didn't take place. They were doing the right thing, if something would have happened to an underage student and they had looked the other way they would have been liable for that incident that could have been prevented. Potential employers probably look at people's profiles more than they know. That is where people are going to show how they really act on the weekends or their spare time. Looking on these social networking sites could show them that you may be into partying and they may not want to hire you because you may be late or hung-over from your late night activities. That's a risk that employers are not willing to take. People just need to realize that putting your risqué pictures up, allows people to prejudge you and make assumptions about the type of person you are.

We had this happen in the Marine Corps, where we had a “don't ask don't tell” policy. However Marines had no idea that our Battalion Sergeant Major was looking at people's profiles and a few people had listed their sexuality and had pictures as well. If you accuse someone of being a certain sexuality you must have proof in the form of pictures or witnessing the event first hand. Little did these Marines know that because they chose to list that information and post those pictures that they would be kicked out with a Dishonorable Discharge. This meant that they would loose all benefits entitled to them as well as their GI Bill privileges.

People are loosing track of what it means to have private things in our lives. Some of my friends have posted nasty things about a spouse on there during their divorce or even if they're in a fight. For reasons like these we need to remember what is personal and shouldn't be public knowledge. People cause problems in relationships just by their replies to your posts’. We have to remember that the Internet is not private, just because that's what you set your profile settings to.