Reflection for week 10

I found a news clip online entitled, “Facebook Gets Boy In Worcester Busted By Boss” http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/ver/247.1/popup/index.php?cl=5001441, on Yahoo News. It talks about a young man who told his boss that he couldn’t work a particular night for various reasons, but posted some photos of himself on Facebook at a party during the night he said he couldn’t work. His boss found the photos online and confronted the man. I’m dumbfounded that many "young" people do not think of possible consequences, present day or future, of what they post online—blogs, video, photos. It’s like they think only other “young” people post information and look at those sites. I think we definitely need to step up the issue of “virtual” appropriateness and inappropriateness and get them to understand that what they post online today, may well still be online twenty years from now.