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Friday?

I remember getting really drunk booking a flight and flying out to Canada where I found Mark Wilson's drink. I slipped a few drops of ghb in his drink and when he was good and passed out I put his hand in a tub of crisco. That's when I led the donkey into his room, shut the door and flew home.

So the question is not do you remember Friday night, but rather do you remember the donkey?

I do, actually.

She was a bit of an ass, but a good lay, none the less.
 
No, the real world doesn't go on hold on the weekends, but what people choose to do with their leissure time shouldn't come back to haunt them during the work week.

It is no longer enough to simply refrain from posting questionable material on your own social networking page. Now people must consider that whatever they do -- in their own house or out of it (the ubiquity of digital photography makes this so) -- could very well end up on someone's Facebook page. Am I now to conduct myself as though I'm at the office at all times? That's asinine.

It's called privacy. It's called sensibility.



Nothing you do in public is private, that's a contradictory statement.


I never said anything about acting like you're in the office at all times, I know I sure as hell don't. I party with the best of them, but I also know when and where to stop.

And I also don't wake up in a pile of my own puke (the scenario I posited in my first post). If this is you at parties, then you have more problems to worry about than what people on facebook are going say. In fact, the one time I passed out at a party, somebody posted a picture on facebook of that, and I'm not ashamed of it. It's a funny photo, and it's never caused me to lose or not get a job. Facebook has privacy settings ya know.

Simply attending a party won't get you in trouble at work unless you work for a pretty crappy organization. Plus, you can always click "remove tag" if it bothers you that much...that way your employer won't see if it's really that big of a deal.
 
Nothing you do in public is private, that's a contradictory statement.


I never said anything about acting like you're in the office at all times, I know I sure as hell don't. I party with the best of them, but I also know when and where to stop.

And I also don't wake up in a pile of my own puke (the scenario I posited in my first post). If this is you at parties, then you have more problems to worry about than what people on facebook are going say. In fact, the one time I passed out at a party, somebody posted a picture on facebook of that, and I'm not ashamed of it. It's a funny photo, and it's never caused me to lose or not get a job. Facebook has privacy settings ya know.

Simply attending a party won't get you in trouble at work unless you work for a pretty crappy organization. Plus, you can always click "remove tag" if it bothers you that much...that way your employer won't see if it's really that big of a deal.

I know that what I do in public is not private, but does it belong on the internet? Is what I do at a friend's house public? Private? Semi-private?

Knowing when to stop is not the issue. For the record, my weekend activities make Ned Flanders look like a wild man, but that's not the point. We all know that the funny candids and "sneeze" pics can make things look different than they actually are. While I certainly don't think that any decent company should be paying attention to the leisure time activities of it's employees, there is an unfortunate gulf between the world that should be and the world that is.

Furthermore, my post was not about controlling the privacy settings and content of my Facebook page. That's easy enough to manage. The point was that I don't have any control over your Facebook content or privacy settings. That is why I was urging you to use a bit of discretion when posting the pictures you find so amusing.

By posting pictures of people in their lowest moments (and we all have them) you are no better than the Paparazzi that are often regarded as scum; perhaps worse since they at least have a profit motive for doing what they do. Maybe you could just stop and think for a moment next time before you feel compelled to post embarrassing, and possibly damaging pictures of your "friends." Your actions just may have a negative impact on others.

Besides, Karma is a biatch ;)