Culture or Lack Thereof

I have always heard that employers check Facebook and Myspace, but I didn’t realize they actually did. Apparently it is causing quite the commotion in the D.C. area as well. I am not quite sure what to think about this. The greater majority of my rational sense thinks that the people who include raunchy and vile things on their Web sites are just morons–especially if they are teachers. The article I read on this (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/27/AR2008042702213_2.html?wpisrc=newsletter&wpisrc=newsletter) dealt specifically with teachers. They were catching hell for having pretty racy and inappropriate stuff. Well, duh! You fucking teach kids. Those were my first thoughts. But, one interviewee made a good point. Personal life and professional life are two separate entities. As long as a teacher isn’t shoving his/her ass into a student’s face, I don’t necessarily see why it is a problem if their ass is posted on the internet. There should be a clear separation. But I waffle. On the one hand, there should be a separation. On third thought, though, these people deal with kids. A person who says on their Facebook, “I want to fuck the world” (which I have seen) should not be a teacher. Obviously, fucking the world includes kids and that is just not right. Now, a picture of a person with a bottle of JD in their hand and their tongue hanging out shouldn’t affect their teaching status, unless they show up at school with a bottle of JD in their hand and their tongue hanging out. This whole issue just sparks a debate that wasn’t an issue pre-internet–at least not for common folk. I’ve always heard that FDR would have never been president if TV had been around, because of his handicap. Also, I have heard that Kennedy actually lost his debates according to radio listeners, but he just looked so damn good. Anyway, the internet has brought that “appearance” and “personal life” thing to the commoners. Politicians have had to deal with this personal/private shit for quite some time. Their image trumps all. Look at Clinton. And who really believes that Obama wants to go to church? Who wants to go to church? Politics is all about private actions (unless you just can’t fucking talk and then it is about how you can’t form words). Now we are getting in on the action. And it is funny how we are getting into it. We are literally doing it to ourselves. The baby boomers are cluing into our little cultural altering. They are our bosses and they are starting to “baby sit” our Web sites. We are basically on a timeout system, except timeout means we don’t get paid and we have to find another house to stay in for a while. It used to be, “Jimmy, don’t track mud into the house or you will be sent to your room for an hour.” It has changed to, “James, I saw that photo of your privates on your Facebook. You are suspended without pay. Was that really my daughter in the background?” And it’s not like we have an excuse. “But boss, I don’t know what you are talking about.” Don’t try that line because you posted the fucking picture. You even tagged it–My Fucking Nuts and My Boss’s Dotter. Facebook and Myspace are self-incriminating and time-sucking. That is my final conclusion. People tell me, “I only have F’book and Myspace because I can keep up with old friends.” Turns out keeping up means talking to all the girls who “just broke up with her boyfriend” or are “wet and ready.” I am sure they are used constructively, but where are those people? I hope they are teaching our kids. 

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