Quote From: flthomcatKids do foolish things. Teens are just big kids. They think because it's fun that's it's ok. They don't stop to think about the impact of their actions on their future. That's so unfortunate.
If I were an employer, I would not hire ANYONE without first checking facebook and myspace, etc. And that's exactly what employers across the country are already doing! As an employer, why would I want to hire someone who doesn't know limits, thinks getting drunk is cool (immature and possible alcoholic???) and doesn't have self restraint nor self-respect???? I wouldn't. My employee represents my company and me. I need to be careful.
When ADULTS do the foolish, immature, irresponsible things that kids/teens do, that speaks volumes about them! They make their choices and the public has a right to make its choices (ie. not want them to represent them, not want to hire them, not want them around their children, etc). It may not always seem fair, but that's LIFE. Everyone has a right to make a choice.
Now with technology, people (kids and adults) need to be VERY CAREFUL before they act. They need to ask themselves (first) how their actions could possibly bite them in the butt!!!
Honestly, back to the substitute teacher thing, if there were a teacher who went home every night and DID perform satanic rituals or, God forbid, was secretly a pedophile, but didn't post any of that on the internet, no one would mind them teaching our kids? It seems as if you are all saying ignorance is bliss. And that is scarier to me than people posting these pictures which, may to some people be immature, or irresponsible, but in all honesty aren't hurting anybody at all. If an employer really wants to dig that deep into someone's personal life, why rely on myspace and facebook? Why wouldn't they just hire a private investigator to find out what is really going on in that person's life? I mean, facebook and myspace are only representations of what people WANT you to see. Employer's should be worried about what possible future employees are hiding from everyone. So to sum things up, everyone should just mind their own business and not go searching for a problem until there is one.
