I know I’m gonna step on a few toes by writing this but I felt it was something that needed to be addressed. I have noticed that people treat facebook like its Las Vegas .. its almost like “what happens on facebook stays on facebook”, but we all know thats not true. Now, I am a self confessed social networking addict and facebook is my main drug of choice. What I’ve noticed is that people tend to unintentionally reveal more about themselves then they realize. I love to browse through my friends photos to see what’s going in there lives .. its like a window into ones life. One thing I have noticed is that every now and then I see photos of someone at a party with a beer in there hand looking a like they have had more then two or three. These are people I know as Christians and while I have many friends in the church with many different views on drinking alcohol I tend to take the stance that getting drunk is a bad thing. So I pose these questions: What do your facebook photos say about you? If Jesus came back today and decided we would all be judged based on our facebook photos would you be nervous?
Pete Graham
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April 26, 2009 at 8:39 pm
Tina
You have a good and valid point. I haven’t even gotten around to posting a profile picture, but I don’t buy into the whole getting drunk thing either. Not my style, never really has been. I think it’s cool that you aren’t afraid to speak your mind. People need to consider, also, that potential employers and other authority people can, and often do check Facebook as well. In addition to whatever your moral beliefs are, there can be, and often are, social consequences to posting such pictures online. It never really stays completely private, even if you would like to think so. Think about what kind of person those kind of pictures reflect you as being, whether true or not.