Twenty Students Suspended In Latest Round Of MySpace-Related Busts

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This once again should reinforce the idea that if you don't want anyone ot find out that you're doing something... Don't take pictures of it, don't video tape it, and for God's sake, don't blog about it or put it on your MySpace profile. When will these kids learn. Look, I don't care what you were actually doing or intending, a picture tells its own story. Anyone who's thrown out a bad picture understands that photographic evidence does not really reflect the truth... But a clever attorney can make it represent anyting he/she wants.

Final Words: Look, we live in an age where you are being watched every minute of your life. Information is constantly being collected about you somewhere, for some purpose. There is no such thing as a privacy really. Unless, you just stay home alone and perform soliloquies to let off steam. If you post it to the internet, someone is going to see it. Someone is going to make a judgement about you based on it and you have no control over that judgement. If they take it wrong, you could get screwed. Our society has a hair trigger for reacting to anything that makes it feel uncomfortable.

Do what I do, enjoy your life and remember as much of it as you can based on your own experiences, not the recorded evidence. As I always point out when questioned about my lack of enthusiasm for video taping everything my little does, I'd rather watch him do things first-hand than watch it later on TV. Seriously, if your looking through a camera... you aren't seeing the whole thing. You're seeing a framed set of moments that are considerably less rich than what you'd pick up otherwise. Besides the benefit of enjoying a wild party, no one's going to show up at your house the next day and accuse you of something just because there's a picture of you giving a random stranger a kiss in a euphoric moment (perhaps a stranger that later decided to knock over a convenience store or blow up their meth-lab.)

These kids in this article have better tools for expressing themselves than I did as a kid... but considerably less sense in the use of them.