- Jan 2, 2001
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Cliffs
1. College coed writes about liking marijuana in Facebook.
2. Someone reads it in her home town and reports the info to her parents and eventually her grandmother in a seniors home hears it.
3. Be careful what you write - it could come back to haunt you many years down the road.
"How do you explain, Senator Finklebomb, what you wrote online in 2005 about wanting xxxx to die in a conflagration?"
The article says employers are already firing or disciplining employees for rants or language used on blogs, personal web sites and/or public message boards and that university students have been disciplined for things on Facebook.
One Harvard student said "You can't be responsible for what you're saying at all times in your life." Looks like you might want to think about being careful what you're posting at all times in your life. Like it or not, that insult you hurled at 16 could still be around when you're 30, or 40, or...
it's food for thought.
Cliffs
1. College coed writes about liking marijuana in Facebook.
2. Someone reads it in her home town and reports the info to her parents and eventually her grandmother in a seniors home hears it.
3. Be careful what you write - it could come back to haunt you many years down the road.
"How do you explain, Senator Finklebomb, what you wrote online in 2005 about wanting xxxx to die in a conflagration?"
The article says employers are already firing or disciplining employees for rants or language used on blogs, personal web sites and/or public message boards and that university students have been disciplined for things on Facebook.
One Harvard student said "You can't be responsible for what you're saying at all times in your life." Looks like you might want to think about being careful what you're posting at all times in your life. Like it or not, that insult you hurled at 16 could still be around when you're 30, or 40, or...
it's food for thought.
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