<p>Every other day, I see my friends on facebook posting the most idiotic things online with little to no privacy settings. It's one thing to post "crazy night!" as your status, but it's a completely different issue when you have a convo on a status concerning exactly what you smoked/drank that night. I believe the worst instance of this was when I was browsing through a friend's pictures and saw about 10 high school juniors posing around a miller light box, drinks in hand, smiling at the camera! How do they not get in trouble for this? Some of the people posting these things are in honor society, are sports captains, etc. </p>
<p>I know these couple of guys who think they’re badasses and post pictures (quite big ones too) of them ostentatiously drinking a beer as their defaults. Some of their friends actually cheer them on in the comments. BTW, they also have some of their teachers added as their friends.</p>
<p>I really hate that stuff, but I don’t know anyone that does that but I still hate how people curse like hell on their status about some stupid thing.</p>
<p>How would they get in trouble? Smoking and drinking is too widespread for anyone to do anything about it. I don’t oppose stuff like that as long as they’re doing it responsibly and not hurting others. But I won’t get into that argument.</p>
<p>Last year at my school, administrators got a hold of pictures of illicit activities. Almost the entire varsity cheerleading squad was kicked off. Varsity boys basketball would have been to if they would have had pictures of them at the party too.</p>
<p>Yeah, at my school you will get in trouble if you are on a team/club and there’s evidence that you were even at a party with alcohol/drugs.</p>
<p>Facebook is dumb. I don’t have one, but I will probably get one before college for the networking. All I see out of it is immature behavior. I just hope these kids realize that a quick background check could easily bring up their profile and there goes internship/job/potential college.</p>
<p>People post all this stuff to make it seem like they’re way cooler than you. They want to be the biggest rebels who are partying every weekend and doing all kinds of illegal stuff. Well, someone’s “crazy nightttt ;)” could’ve been watching “The Notebook” and eating Ben & Jerry’s. Or, they actually did go out and party, but feel the need to let everyone know that they went to a party, like they need everyone else’s validation that they are, in fact, the coolest person out there. I think it’s a ton of BS.</p>
<p>Whenever I see my friends with posts like “whoa got sooo faded last night” or "<em>insert obscene cuss word here</em> I always think 'well I hope they don’t want to go into politics when they grow up. And a lot of them have family and teachers added! I don’t say anything to them but it always makes me wonder what they want to do when they get older…</p>
<p>Someone I know got expelled for having pictures of her doing drugs/alcohol on her facebook (with almost no privacy settings!) during second semester senior year. I don’t know who exactly reported her, but she ended up not graduating from high school and is working on a GRE now…</p>
<p>One of my teacher’s daughter had public photos of them drinking under-aged. I thought it was amusing.</p>
<p>Also I avoided making a facebook profile (at least one that can be connected to me in real life) until late senior year, so I have avoided having to even deal with people from my high school. As far as I know, none of em are aware.</p>