Teacher to Be

Thanks to digital cameras and Facebook, a generation documents itself like never

Ok I am of the facebook era, and yes I have facebook but when I read comments like “Joelle Chow, 15, said that when she and her friends gather at her house, they sometimes do their hair and make up just to make sure they look good in the pictures they post on Facebook. ” I mean seriously how “me” in multimedia can you get. I have photos up but we do not go around for the express purpose of taking photos for my facebook.  I actually think it is fairly dangerous tool, I mean I have a friend on facebook who has photos of her two year old son and he is naked in alot of them. You tag it as nudity but nothing happens, well not yet. So what happens if some pedophile is on looking at the photos, of the two year old, the 15 year old.

Also this article talks about how people “Today, if you choose not to do Facebook in college, you have all but chosen to be a social isolate.” So if you are not using this, this makes you something that is beneath talking to. How obscene is that?

Yes facebook and my space has advantages, you can share your photos and show friends stuff, but when there are people specifically going around getting dressed up in case they get snapped for face book. It just seems plain silly. I think in moderation it is a great idea, and I use it. However, if it is monitored enough it could go awry.

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