Facebook....the billion dollar social entity that has become the way, the truth AND the light for some. A reality for so many of its users but what's really real? We've seen Facebook frontin' at it's finest with the young man perpetrating like he was hard until his uncle made him "run tell dat". But what about the other extreme? A friend once said he felt like Facebook had become the Bible with all the scripture quotes and testimonies that were filling up his daily news feed. I wonder, too, at times if posting things like that makes people feel any more Christian or validated in general if the world can see it; or if they are genuine in their thoughts and actions offline as well as on? Are the men and women talkin' about they got this and that truly about what they post or just fakin?
Let's flip it and examine yet another scenario:
Scenario: A group of friends go out to celebrate a major accomplishment of one of their friends. They do a lot of drinking, partying and doing whatever a group of 20 and 30 somethings living 20 and 30 something lives would do. One person posts and tags pictures of the others and there's alcohol and such in the photos. As a result, one of the peers is reprimanded at work and comes close to being fired due to a colleague seeing the pics. From then on they ask their pals for certain photos not to be posted or tagged. Others accuse them of being fake and say they shouldn't take the pictures to begin with. Is that person frontin' or just looking out for his or her best interest? Is it fair that people are judged based on their Facebook pages and should that just be expected? How much stock do you put into people's posts and profiles and do you believe FB has become a haven for people trying to be more, or less, than who they actually are?
Toez? You knew I was gonna support yo blog so here goes nothing... If you are a 20-30 y/o professional and you were smart enough to become successful and obtain the respect of your superiors, you should be smart enough to know the rules and risks not to take, to maintain the image that you have to at work. Everyone who works for someone else is a paid actor. That’s why your job description bullets out your "role" performance and expectations. So we all act a little different at work than we do when we are kicking it with our friends and fam who we love and trust. What good is kicking back if you can’t be off da clock, why feel like you are at work while you are kicking back or partying. So you could either walk on egg shells or ask for no photos to be taken or posted without your pre approval. For a person to say you are being fake, that person obviously does not have much of an image to protect or has nothing to lose by being depicted as irresponsible by peers and colleagues. Bottom line is, it’s your career, your money and your responsibility to make sure they are both secure. Who cares what anyone thinks, they don’t pay your bills...
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