#30 – Nobody can explain that to you because it simply isn’t a moral issue.

It is hard to argue this is a privacy issue as MySpace is quite public and people using these sites are putting themselves out there for public viewing – and why not? The point is “social networking.” It’s hard to network in private.

But we are seeing the tip of the iceberg with people being punished for having normal adult lives… I hate to say it in front of this crowd, but if businesses and institutions cannot be trusted to leave the lives of people to those people then perhaps there needs to be protection in the form of… OMG…. Legislation…

Before the conservatives jump all over that, remember, it ain’t gonna happen in this climate.

Ok, can you now explain why or how it’s immoral for a 25 year old woman to drink from a cup while wearing a pirate hat on Halloween?

http://urltea.com/gtb?millersville.edu

Why didn’t they just ask her to remove the picture if they wanted to protect their reputation. What kind of adult looks at any picture, let alone that innocuous one, on a personal/social site, and jumps to the conclusion that she’s promoting underage drinking.

Employers will be a click and a few dollars away from knowing the differing ways resumes were padded and slanted through your carer, what your off hours habits and vices are, and how quickly you shift into spleen curdling rants.

A little later in Dvoraks blog we see music recognition pretty well nailed. Over a cel phone no less. Give it ten years or twenty when face recognition catches up.

The photos will have been catalouged and preserved nicely, and your name and numbers and likeness will be attached to all those funny flikr photos from the 1990′s onward.

It won’t take much fuzzy logic to attach real names to online psuedonyms and psuedoanonynyms. The data is there today. It will just be a scant few years before it is tied together into a nice neat package.

Everything from job promotions to health inurance to defense in civil cases will hinge on the dumb ass things you’ve done online.

You have been warned.

John S

John S

“Can somebody explain how a picture of a drunk 25 year old promotes underage drinking?”

But actually it’s even worse than that; it really can only be said that it’s a picture of someone (presumably the subject) apparently taking a drink. Drunk? How can a photo possibly prove the BAL of it’s subject? Such idiocy.

And for all any viewer can tell, the cup (which obviously does not carry the name of any alcoholic beverage, BTW) could, in point of actual fact, be completely empty…

Even Lionel Hutz could win this one. In his sleep.

One has to wonder how many talented and succeful people (not that my example of Bush should be considered either) would be able to hold positions of stature in business, government, law enforcement, etc., if the dumb but wholly innocent crap they did (that every last one of us did in high school and college) were available for public scrutiny.

The social strata in power (known as The Collective of Hypocritical and Ignorant Tight-Asses) would be out on their ears if digital cameras and social networking sites weren’t a relatively recent innovation.

#6 – 1. This chick is somehow oblivious to the fact that anyone who wants to be a teacher these days is not allowed to have *any* social interaction on the internet. A google search for their name shouldn’t come up with any hits if they want to play safe… It’s a failing of the university’s program if they aren’t beating this into the edu students’ heads from day one.

With the exception og activities that call morality into to question, that statement is absolutely untrue.

#10 – This was discussed just a few days ago here at DU. Many posters wanted to read something into an essay that wasn’t there.

And you are still wrong about that but you are right about everything else.

This girl has been damaged and should be able to get her degree and recover her four years of tuition and expenses (I hope) – which ought to pay for her Masters from a different University.

“There are way too many Mormons in charge in that University..”

Interesting fact – if you remove the third “M” from your statement, it remains true…