Posting on Facebook, MySpace and other social networks is a favorite pastime for teens and 20somethings - and they remain a great way for families to keep in touch - but recent headlines have yielded some caveats that have nothing to do with the usual “predators lurk everywhere” issues. Here are five Facebook dangers you may never have thought about.
Facebook and college admissions: It's a bad idea to post dicey photos or racy prose on social networking sites, no matter how private teens may think they are. According to a 2008 Kaplan study, one in 10 college admissions officers routinely check out college applicants’ Facebook and MySpace pages. And some 38% of them found posts and pictures that reflected poorly on those prospective students. It wasn’t even necessarily that they’d posted provocative or hard partying photos. In some cases, students had simply written disparagingly about the campuses they toured.
Grad school and careers: Business and medical school admissions officers surf social networking sites in even greater numbers than their undergrad brethren. So do prospective employers, none of whom are impressed by posts that holler “Par-tay! Woo hoo!”
Fellow students: It’s not just admissions officers doing the surfing. Some upper classmen at the University of Redlands were so incensed by partying comments made by several incoming freshmen on the Redlands Facebook group site, they showed the posts to college officials. College administrators said they called the teens’ parents a few weeks before school began to have a little talk.
Courtroom consequences: Unfortunate Facebook postings can have serious legal repercussions too. One of the first things attorneys do with a new case is search online for information about plaintiffs, defendants and witnesses alike. In one Rhode Island case, a 20-year-old’s drunk driving accident, which severely injured another youth, could have resulted in a relatively light stint at county jail or the considerably more severe state prison. But, as the prosecutor in the case quickly discovered, two weeks after the accident, while his victim was still in the hospital, the youth posted photos on Facebook of himself at a Halloween party, prancing around in a prisoner costume. He was sentenced to two years in state prison.
Child pornography charges: Posting or sending photos of oneself or friends in scanty clothing or sexually suggestive poses may be a popular pastime among the younger set, but if any of the people posing are under 18, the practice may result in child pornography charges. There were several such cases in 2008, including an Ohio 15-year-old who was charged with child pornography after sending nude cell phone images of herself to friends. At the time, officials in Licking County considered charging recipients of those images as well. It's one thing to be charged with sending or receiving child pornography as a minor, but those charges in adult court may carry not only prison time, but a lifetime of registering as a sex offender.
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THIS TOPIC? ARE YOU AGREE OR DISAGREE? EXPLAIN YOUR ANSWER.
michelle
30-03-2011 19:49
El facebook es una red social muy utilizada, tanto de buena manera como mala, actualmente se sube mucho material inadecuado para ser visto por muchas personas, estoy de acuerdo que se utilize con la comunicacion y no con material o otras cosas
ES KIMBERLYN MEDINA! EL CORREO DE CONFIRMACION NO ME LLEGA!
michelle flores
Ysmael Sanchez 32
22-03-2011 20:51
I think teenagers have been carried away, and have led to a excepso online social networks even at that, that sometimes your life is going on a computer or a Blackberry to update their status on Facebook. or put a twett .. and do not see or enjoy their youth, their happiness, all that in this age can do. Hang out with friends, sports. And it's true the internet is very good! research assistance and information and the connection with relatives and friends far away, but pornography is a vice as bad as the cigar; as the Alcohol and it eats the young and leads to obsession about it! What else you Professor?
Jose Jesus Jatar
20-03-2011 22:13
I agree with social networks because for us teens are a great source of enjoyment and also by these means we can keep contact with people who are distant from us, be they friends or relatives can always be in contact with them. Sure it's a big responsibility that through them you can do many things good and bad but the important thing would be responsible and use them for good purposes t be very careful what you write or publish them for you never know who could read or see and who could use this information.
Ritmilia Dovale
20-03-2011 18:03
I think that social networks are useful in humans because it helps us acominucarnos with people who are inside and outside the country and we can see as technology has advanced today. but so has its advantages and has disadvantages as well as network we can say that is the most important today for young people like the facebook that if we do not give privacy as possible we can have many consequences and many people use it just a bad way to violate the privacy of others and young have to be very careful with it
Ritmilia Dovale
karina vargas
20-03-2011 17:40
I think that having this type of social networking has advantages and disadvantages, first we used to have direct contact with people we know, on the other side should be careful with things that are published in this type of network that there are people who engage in harassment and seeking information to make crimes such as kidnapping or extortion, and this is something which is more common every day, which is why we monitor the information we publish.
I agree however that such networks exist but be careful with the information we write that are personal.
karina
Jose Cordova
20-03-2011 17:31
I agree with what is written above. we have
be very careful with the information we publish in
social networks as we expose them to give information of nuetra
town and our family.
but you should also inform children of
hazards that can happen if not fully informed about how
use these social networks. Jose Cordova
Ana Rodriguez
20-03-2011 17:22
I agree with social networks and help you catch up, and most of all serves our age of distraction, of course it is a big responsibility and risk have online accounts like this, because there are many people taking advantage of the information you post in it and use it for evil purposes. My conclusion was that it is not bad to have this type of social networking accounts, in contrast helps us to maintain communication, but should limit the information that there are very well placed to see the friendly invitations you accept.
All based on the proper use of information and limitations.
xoxo
ana
luzneys esperanza
20-03-2011 17:08
i like the network social because, it has advantages you can receive so fast information, you can send information. it means i´m agreed but, so it has disavantages.
for examples: facebook, massenger and so on. you only can interchange ideas with friends you can not give infomation disknow people because today it has happened many things for this network social. it has dangerous result for examples: kidnapping, criminal acts, and fraud.
"so be careful young people"
luzneys esperanza
Naymar
16-03-2011 12:43
Well I feel very good this article because they express things of reality concerning social networks. I particularly love this social networking facebook, but why we can neglect to ventilate your private life I do it very quietly because there are always people with bad intentions.
I really feel very good because in some form or another is warning young people to be more careful and know the risks it takes to do that sort of thing that says this article. WELL (:
