Facebook

1. Was it weird to add your professor as a friend?
Yess! Absolutely, I found it no more calming then adding my mother as a friend on Facebook. If I ask myself why, it is because I have way too much information on Facebook. Too many pictures, too many posts, and tJust the other day, as a joke with one of my friends I posted "spooning w/ mary" as my status. My mom first asked me what was spooning, which was hilarious in itself, but then proceeded to ask me if I was really spooning with her...was I dating women. Obviously again, hilarious. For me it was funny but these are the problems with posting the things we do on Facebook. All types of pictures and comments that people don't understand, take the wrong way, or downright probably shouldn't be up there. It’s weird. For a social networking site, that encourages social networking, we don't really promote ourselves well...I suppose depending on the person you’re promoting yourself too, that is. The thing is though, most people, myself, don't look at it in that sense. We don't think about how our personal page reflects us on others...some people might not care.


Take a look at these disturbing results from a random survey of 200 Facebook profiles and comments conducted by Peluchette and Karl in the article Examining Students’ Intended Image on Facebook:“What Were They Thinking?!”

“…42% had comments regarding alcohol, 53% had photos involving alcohol use, 20% had comments regarding sexual activities, 25% had seminude or sexually provocative photos, and 50% included the use of profanity (Peluchette & Karl, 2007). These authors also examined wall comment or public messages that individuals post on each others’ profiles and found that approximately 50% involved issues of partying, 40% involved negative comments about other people, 25% involved derogatory comments about employers, 18% involved sexual activities…”

Think about it from your mother’s perspective…or your professor’s. How about an employer’s? A little disturbing isn’t it.


2. Have any awkward situations arise from the information posted about you on Facebook?
Of course, who hasn’t? Who hasn’t dealt with a boyfriend questioning a curious comment from a guy he doesn’t know…or maybe he has met. Or a parent checking your pictures from the last frat party you attended, in which case you may have been too drunk to remember the pictures. I have very questionable pictures on Facebook. My profile has been monitored by my mother, my boyfriend, my ex-boyfriend, girls who didn’t like me and had someone else friend me to be nosey, my friends boyfriends, my friend’s ex-boyfriends, etc…Its obvious drama-central. Why keep it? Because who doesn’t love Facebook.

Here's a link to the event page I created on Facebook, in support of Gay abd Lesbian Youth.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pretending-to-Text-in-Awkward-Situations/112678439229?ref=nf#/event.php?eid=179434596089&index=1

This event post, ironically, caused mini havoc as well. Seeing as it was a Gala to support Gay and lesbian youth...and happened to post itself all over my profile as the creator and attending guest...I had a few people to answer to in the morning.