You know, the interesting thing about this story in
the WSJ about prospective college students being hoisted
on their own social networking petards is the juxtaposition of the
Millennials’ technological sophistication and personal naiveté.
They post all kinds of stuff on their Facebook,
Google+, Tumblr and other sites (and allow their friends to post all kinds
of more stuff on ditto), and are then surprised that someone—a potential
employer, or college admissions officer, or Granny—views it and draws some conclusions about how they spend their time.
Really, it’s kind of cute: “I’ve got this Cloak of
Invisibility thing going, so I can be totally outrageous with my peeps, but
there won’t be any unintended consequences. That Weiner guy? Total loser. That’ll
never happen to me.”
Yeah, right.
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