Friday, September 28, 2012

FaceBook has it's advantages if it is used properly.  By no means does the amount of friends I have on FaceBook reflect how much friends I actually have, true friends especially. Some of my best friends don't even have a FaceBook.  I'd say a majority of my FaceBook friends are just acquaintances or "friends of friends".  I surely don't see most of them on a daily basis and I only talk to a few people on occasions via FaceBook.  When I do engage in a meaningful conversation, though, it's usually with an international friend.  I have a decent amount of good friends in several countries around the world, England especially, and I stay in touch with them on a fairly regular basis.  That's where FaceBook comes in handy and also Skype.  In all honesty, I text my closest friends or people who I want to talk to.  I only use FaceBook for pictures and occasional shared articles or photos.  Twitter has overtaken FaceBook, in my opinion, as an easier way to display and receive information from a more narrowed, select few that you freely choose to 'follow'.  It is better built for multiple status updates.  That's just me though.

With being your own person comes responsibility.  If you don't care who sees all of your information and what not, that's fine, but it's on you when that comes back to bite you.  You here it everywhere that once it's put out on the internet, it's there forever.  That is true and if a person is involved in questionable activities and pictures end up on FaceBook, for example, you can untag yourself, but the pictures will still be on there and people will find them.  Personally, if you don't want a potential employer to see something on a social networking site of yours, it shouldn't be on there, simple as that.  There shouldn't be a need to hide something or be uneasy when at an interview.  If I randomly went to a friend's FaceBook page right now, there would more than likely be something inappropriate on it.  It may not necessarily be wrong, but you still need to be conscious that you're representing yourself and everything that you stand for whenever you decide to post something.  Just think before you do and everything should be fine.  You can't have two identities; one online and then your "real" self.  Act and present yourself in a way in which you want to be known.