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I fell back in love with Justin Timberlake last night while he was on Jimmy Fallon's show to talk about his new movie, "The Social Network," which opens Friday. Justin and Jimmy did a crazy rendition of like 1,000 hip hop songs in like 2 minutes, accompanied by The Roots, of course. It was pretty cool.
But in light of the movie's opening, it reminded me to take a minute to gripe about social media.
I remember when Facebook was only open to college students. I remember my friend explaining it to me because it wasn't yet available at my unversity. When we finally got it, I recall being very excited to use it and connect with people from way back.
But now it's open to everybody, and you can't curse anymore or post pix from that party where you had too much to drink. You can't do this and you shouldn't do that because "you never know who's watching" and "employers check your page before they decide to interview you."
Gimme a break! Twitter lets you connect to even bigger-named ppl, so I suppose an extension of the same "manage your online persona" caveat applies there too, somewhat. That's too much work. Now I have to be fake online too??
It seems to me that the only place you can be yourself now is...in person. :)
2 comments:
Thumbs up on this post. There have been some times where I wanted to just let go and say some crazy shit, but you never know who's watching and judging.
I know is safe on the internet, but I wonder if employers can see people's pages when they are private?
I imagine there's still a way. If you think about it, if I'm tagged in a picture with a bunch of other people, you can still see it. Sometimes people don't adjust their settings right, and it's always possible for say, me to be friends with TeeTee and let someone who's not friends with TeeTee see her page...
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