Big Brother is watching YOU

You are safe from no one.

(Compliments of PostSecret)

You know how you've been trying to get people to stop tagging you in pictures? Especially the ones of you passed out in an oversized birdcage with the remnants of a bacon cheeseburger on your face which you don't remember eating, but must have or else how did it get there...? (Oh God, I'm a vegetarian! How did it get there?!)

More and more people are setting their Facebook accounts to 'private' so that only people they accept as friends can see their pictures from the weekend. On one of the first days of Creative Communications, they told us from the get-go to not post anything on the internet that we wouldn't want any future employers to see.

This makes "creeping" people on Facebook so much harder. ("Creeping" is a term used to describe going on Facebook and looking up a cute girl you met at a party and spending hours going through her pictures)

Now my Facebook profile is set on private, under a crafty internet moniker. (Try to find me now. Ha!)

But after reading that secret on Sunday, it illuminated the fact that others in your life may be using Facebook to creep YOU! The dentist asks you why you have a chipped tooth. You say because of hockey. He looks at you strangely because he doesn't believe you, because you look like you haven't played a single sport in your life. He goes home after work and searches you on Facebook. He finds your profile and goes through your pictures. He finds out that you actually lost your tooth by trying to make a save in hockey by catching it in between your teeth. He goes to the store to buy an apology card because he assumed falsely. You do, in fact, play hockey.

But the biggest point here is, should pictures of you having fun on the weekend, on your own time, really be a judge of character? Of course, if you're doing something completely inappropriate or unlawful, then yes. But should one's overindulgence from time to time be a determining factor of their worth ethic and capabilities? How important is professionalism in your private life?