On the 20th of March, we watched a CBC Doc Zone's documentary titled "Facebook Follies". It was a little over an hour long program that talked about the consequences of what we put online for everyone to see, and how we should think before we post.
Many people appear not to think before posting or tweeting. It seems that all that matters is the pictures themselves and not the consequences down the road. These people are taking a big risk, because you never really know who your friends are until it's too late to hit "unfriend". Facebook makes social forgetting impossible, and this is partly why the cyber crime hub of the world right now is Facebook. You may not think about it now, but that silly photo you put up of your friend for the world to see could ruin his/her career twenty years down the road. It doesn't matter if it happened when you were 18 and now you're 45, that picture, or that comment, or post, or tweet, will forever be a representation of you.
I think people should really be more aware of this and understand how dangerous it can be to display any type of personal information, or any seemingly innocent joke or empty threat. Even if you don't think that it is harmful, sarcasm can't always be heard via text. Remember that.
It is human nature to connect with people and Facebook is just one convenient way of doing that, but people don't seem to realize that private data is private for a reason. Once you put that on the internet, there is no dragging it back. It is out there forever.
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