The Internet: Love It Now. Fear It Later.

The Internet: Love It Now. Fear It Later.
Bo Culkeen
Project #1
Audience: College Students, social networking users.
The audience should care because it affects their future.
649 words

In the last couple years, social network sites such as Facebook, Myspace and Twitter have blown up. Everyone is using them now and quite frankly, I’m scared. These sites are ways for users to voice their opinion on any matter they chose whether it makes sense or not. Even these blogs are ways for loud mouths to spit out their meaningless and pointless rants (don’t look at me, this is an assignment). But before you get too carried away with yourself and post that really sexy photo of you in a mini skirt doing a keg stand while the guy holding you up has his other hand on a bong, you might want to consider the future and what it has in store for you.
Jobs are not easy to come by now days. So wouldn’t you want to make it as easy as possible for you to get hired? Employers are not only looking at your resume and your college degree; they are checking your profile picture and your latest Tweet. They are checking what kind of comments you leave on your friend’s wall and how you spend your weekends. And it doesn’t stop there. It isn’t just jobs that are creeping on Facebook pages. Colleges are sneaking peaks at what students are doing when they aren’t in class.
I remember when I first started at Flagler College, I was advised by a lot of students to not put up any pictures of me with alcohol. Not only was I underage, I lived on campus and Flagler is a dry campus so alcohol is a big no no. It’s even more important for athletes because if they are caught drinking during the season, they can be suspended for multiple games. Colleges are also checking your Facebook.com page when you apply for school.
Erika Scoliere, a 20 year old college student at the University of Dayton in Ohio has been in trouble with the law before for underage drinking. So when she was violating her regular basis check-ins, authorities turned to their trusty and loyal friend Facebook.com for some answers. There they found pictures of Scoliere drinking tequila and passing out. Now she has to where an alcohol monitor.
Sucks to be her. Maybe if she wasn’t such an idiot and just checked in with authorities. But no, she allowed a photo with the caption, “Ten minutes later, Erika passed out in my bed. Ha. Ha. Ha”. But back to the point. It is very important to be careful with what you put on the internet.
Scoliere isn’t the only moron who has herself to blame. Medical School Deans conducted a search and found medical students posting information on patients, requesting patients to be friends and a mass of profanity. Oh but it gets worse. In a search on Youtube.com, a video was found of medical students pulling a prank using a dead body. How stupid could someone be? I thought it was understood you don’t mess with the dead but if you do, don’t put it on the Internet.
"I watched it and I definitely cringed,” said Katherine Chretien of The Washington, D.C., VA Medical Center. “It undermines the credibility of our profession."
Those students deserve to be expelled. Good luck getting a job anywhere sickos.
I don’t think anything should be posted that you don’t want your grandmother to see. Its that simple.
The middle finger isnt funny, why take a picture of you doing it?
If I want to see a half naked girl, I don’t want to go on to Facebook.com, I’ll just watch re-runs of Baywatch.
Weed is illegal. Until it isn’t, why would you put up photos online of you smoking it?
However, there are dumb people out there and there will always be dumb people. So for those dumb and dumbers out there, try making your profile private, for your futures sake.



Work Cited

· http://adminprofessional.ca/post/Will-Facebook-Prevent-You-From-Getting-the-Job.aspx

· http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32972597/ns/health-health_care/

· http://chicagoist.com/2009/06/04/facebook_pic_lands_underage_drinker.php