Drunk Teens: EXPOSED

“The drunken shenanigans perpetrated in your youth may long since have been eclipsed by an adult life of sober responsibility and charitable works, but on the web none of that really counts, and so far as the viewer is concerned they might as well have happened yesterday.“

Ian S. Bruce, The Sunday Herald

Last night I was browsing through pictures of friends on the social networking site Facebook, and I came across a certain girl’s photo album.  Nearly every single picture inside displayed a hazy room with a bunch of teens, whom I know, swigging down cans of Busch Lite or other indeterminable brands of booze.  Several of the photographs showed the same teens filling their lungs with smoke from cigarettes.

I wasn’t very surprised about these situations:  This girl is pretty candid about her party life, as are most of the people in the photographs;  however, I did see some people in them that I considered above this kind of behavior.  I’ve always been a little naïve, though.

Never mind the fact that these people are wasting their lives away.  Never mind the fact that this girl still has four years until she can legally drink.  These things bother me, yes, and I feel terrible about how they’re behaving;  but what really makes me sit and wonder is that they would willingly post over 100 pictures of this incriminating stuff!  People have lost their jobs over their online postings.  Head hunters, I have heard, will often check someone’s Internet records before hiring.

Family members could get online and see these things.

Potential prom dates.

Anyone.

Why can’t they just be content to upload odd-angled, sepia-toned photographs of themselves just like every other teenager?  It seems foolish to unveil such risky things to the rest of the world.

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