I was having a beer with an old pal last night and we agreed that, for many kids today, the boundary between one's private and public lives seems to have utterly and perhaps irrevocably disappeared. I'm talking about Twitter and Facebook in particular. As a curmudgeon of 42 (yes, get off my lawn, you damn kids), I'm telling anyone who'll listen to remember that what you tweet and shoot out to FB at the speed of light can be read by many, many people and it has a way of floating around out there forever, even if you try one day to delete your accounts. Teachers might read your rants, or people who might consider your university admission one day, or your employer, or your future spouse and, yes, god forbid, your kids. So, PLEASE, be discreet and think about what you are posting. Much of that is your business and none of mine...
Yeap its like discovering a lost diary, one that you wrote years ago and you cringe inwardly at the prose & contents.
ReplyDeleteNonetheless, it might be one way of achieving immortality- the postings will remain long after you have gone.