Internet Mistakes

Just when will people start to realize that posting incriminating photos of yourself on the internet is…perhaps…NOT the best idea?



I’ll tell you a secret: sometimes I peruse the profiles of my most scandalous, least modest “Facebook friends” just to entertain myself with their latest shocking documented exploits. Oh look, there are Natalie Simon’s titties falling out again…kegstand #5, WOW that’s getting messy…on a nude beach, very tactful, props…..making out with a girl, typical night on the town……is she….pretending to blow a guy??

I know, pictures like this just bring you right back to the days of beer pong and frat parties, sweaty dark dance floors grinding with drunken ugly strangers and waking up with mascara smeared down your face as you wonder what happened last night and WHO you’re sleeping next to and WHY you have your pants on backwards with your underwear on your right foot. Remember those days? ….yeah, me neither.



So, what happens when your parents or potential employers do a little investigation and get smacked in the face with pictures like:

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What if you’re running for president when you’re 49 and some archenemy turns in this picture of 21-year-old you to the paparazzi?



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Dr. Phil recently hosted a show entitled “Internet Mistakes”, which featured the moderator (Jasmine Kalimullah) of a Facebook group called “Thirty Reasons a Girl Should Call it a Night”. The group has over 5,000 pictures (probably 70% of which feature girls under 21) of young women puking, passed out, half-naked with tongues out, or in other compromising positions. Jasmine says, “I don’t endorse public urination, or alcohol poisoning, but I do find humor in some of the things that happen when you do go to a bar and drink. Myself, the members, we aren’t trash, we aren’t whores, we don’t lack class, and we are intelligent. There’s still a double standard of genders. Thirty Reasons a Girl Should Call It a Night is the next step for women.”



Speak for yourself Jasmine…I can’t think of a single reason why it would “empower women” or make anyone look good to have drunken, slutty, drug-doing pictures of yourself on the Internet. I mean, look where all the above pictures ended up: on my blog, getting insulted.



In all fairness, I’ve had my share of “Internet Mistakes”…now there are pictures like THIS out there that I have no power to take down.



I’ll be the first to admit that that’s stupid. I think in this day and age, everyone makes some mistakes concerning this topic. Probably 95% of Facebook users have some sort of idiotic/incriminating pictures wafting around somewhere on the ‘net. But generally people have the good sense to untag them.



So Meghan Barger, if you ever want out of that Target cashiering job and on to something that pays more than $8 an hour (with the possible exclusion of stripping), maybe you should untag this…..
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