Wednesday, February 18, 2009

FACEBOOK and Nobody knows you're a dog

I'm not much of a Facebook junky; I don't even have a Facebook profile and I prefer Myspace. I didn't really care much for either, until I left for college. It came in handy; my sisters and I would hold conversations late into the night. I didn't realize the harm in having a profile until I started getting messages from some kid on campus--SCARY, I KNOW!! I brushed it off and out-of-the-blues the kid calls me--SCARY!! He says he got it from the university directory and I'm like OKAY. I checked out his profile and was blown away at the content of his page, then I ignored him. It wasn't until later I ran into the kid and for a few seconds we looked at each other with familiarity and I ran!!! This has nothing to do with Facebook, but the whole article reminded me of this instance. The whole cyber-space world scares me; from identity theft to predators.

I was also reminded that in a couple more years my son would also think it was socially suicidal to have his mom as his friend. I hope that I could teach him that family comes first, no matter the consequences and that it is a privilege to have such an awesome and RAD mom.

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