"Get Off Face Book", in every sense of the term.
September 1st 2008 12:54
When you get off your face and get plastered, then plaster your face all over Facebook, you can't save face any longer. Your only option is to get off Facebook, or stop getting off your face!
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Kids are apparently whining that their parents can get onto Facebook and find out what shenanigans they've been up to. Poor babies.
In a world where people are able to post all of their drunken, "munted" some may say, indiscretions on the Web for all and sundry to see, there are some people who are horrified to discover people that know and love them can find out what they have been up to. Worse still, they'll let you know they know. How do I know? I found out what I didn't (want to) know, and let them know. There was a Facebook face-off over off-facedness and sucking face, and now said friend can't face me, or the truth. "Am I ever gonna see her face again?" We "Angels" fans all know the answer to that question. It was pretty much the answer I was given. This we will probably never be face to face again, but through a computer interface. But it was a long time since we saw eye to eye anyway.
Some advice...
To those who can't cope with being exposed by those who know them and care about their welfare, should stop being two-faced. It's difficult to have an online persona that differs from your real one. Especially when there is photographic evidence and eyewitness accounts of your debauchery on line.
More frightening is when the kids find what the parents have been up to by logging onto this technology. Rest assured, it is only a matter of time before they move on from disney.com and Hannah Montana to facebook.com and Miley Cyrus. But their closest role models are those they live with and love.
It's devastating when you reach that age of the knowledge that your parents aren't perfect. How much more crushing to a kid's world to find that their parents are drunks, promiscuous, or just purely lacking in judgement, from the www? Any boundaries you've set and morals you've tried to instill in your kids are then destructed, and any respect diminishes. The kid loses their moral compass- you. So they either make it up as they go, or seek an alternative role model/mentor... who may or may not be worse than you.
So kids, stop whining. And parents, grow up. And everyone, know there's mobile phone cameras everywhere, in the hands of your friends and of strangers; primed to snap your ugly moments and post them for the world to see.
Your text goes here
Kids are apparently whining that their parents can get onto Facebook and find out what shenanigans they've been up to. Poor babies.
In a world where people are able to post all of their drunken, "munted" some may say, indiscretions on the Web for all and sundry to see, there are some people who are horrified to discover people that know and love them can find out what they have been up to. Worse still, they'll let you know they know. How do I know? I found out what I didn't (want to) know, and let them know. There was a Facebook face-off over off-facedness and sucking face, and now said friend can't face me, or the truth. "Am I ever gonna see her face again?" We "Angels" fans all know the answer to that question. It was pretty much the answer I was given. This we will probably never be face to face again, but through a computer interface. But it was a long time since we saw eye to eye anyway.
To those who can't cope with being exposed by those who know them and care about their welfare, should stop being two-faced. It's difficult to have an online persona that differs from your real one. Especially when there is photographic evidence and eyewitness accounts of your debauchery on line.
More frightening is when the kids find what the parents have been up to by logging onto this technology. Rest assured, it is only a matter of time before they move on from disney.com and Hannah Montana to facebook.com and Miley Cyrus. But their closest role models are those they live with and love.
So kids, stop whining. And parents, grow up. And everyone, know there's mobile phone cameras everywhere, in the hands of your friends and of strangers; primed to snap your ugly moments and post them for the world to see.
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