Privacy on the Intrawebs and other stories.
So this is going to be my official "public profile"--I made the decision last night to privatize my facebook and myspace profiles. Why? because I've heard too many horror stories about teacher candidates not being able to get jobs or being denied their certificates based on stuff they posted on those sites. Although I think the whole concept of being punished for expressing yourself on the internet is wrong--I have to safeguard myself from it. The reason I'm leaving livejournal open to the public yet is because I'm part of a dying breed of online journalers--ones that still do not bow to pressure from the world wide webs' freaks and geeks that have nothing better to do than write malicious things to people that don't know.
I like having this as a public forum. I like being able to express myself and not have to censor what I say. I have never been one to post ridiculous sailor-talk...except when I was in high school and if any future employers would stumble upon this and look over the past 6 years worth of entries--they'd know that most of that came out in high school. My rebellious stage.
Certainly I still have a sense of rebellion about me that future employers in the education field may be apprehensive about. I'm not the normal teacher candidate. If I could have spent the rest of my life working in a small hole in the wall used record store, dying my hair blue and wearing crazy clothing I would have. I would have played bass forever in a band going no where if it was conducive to our capitalistic society. Unfortunately America does not offer that sort of opportunity. Instead I had to look into things that may interest me. History interests me and helping people interests me as well. So teaching history was probably the most obvious solution to my future career dilemma. Certainly education is a very conservative career--but it's something I care passionately about. To me it's worth that little bit of self-censorship.
Even though I think making private profiles goes against the entire principle of social networking, I had to do it. Although I think it's wrong that our first amendment rights can be limited on the internet--I will bow to the pressure when it comes to myspace and facebook.
Yet I will still let my thoughts flow freely on livejournal. I will never give in to that. My thoughts should not be exclusive to those that I know. The whole idea behind the internets is to connect us to people around the world. I don't need to make this exclusive to the people that I can just speak to. I don't need to write out a bunch of my thoughts for them I can just tell them those. I can sit at haute chocolate for three hours spilling hot chocolate milk shakes, supporting a local business and talking about real issues in the world with real people I know. I don't need the internet for that. I do think there is purpose in continuing to allow my thoughts on the world and the things around me open to people wherever they are in the world. Whether they agree or disagree.
Yet again my entry here has gotten very long. I wrote something similar on facebook when I explained the reasons for closing off my profiles access to the web at large yet I think those goes a little deeper. This journal has grown up with me since high school. I am now entering my last year of college and I really don't think censoring it now is going to help anything. There is over one thousand entries on here. Everything I thought was exciting and spectacular I put in here from the time I was in 10th grade to right now. I like that.
let me just say a few things that are going to happen this summer. One, I'm going to see the Goo Goo Dolls one last time on this tour. I didn't exactly want to go but melanie persuaded me. We're going July 27th to the Atlantic City show. Unfortunately it is the SAME DAY as the Dead 50s come back show at the Silo. I love the Dead 50s so much...and they are playing with Big Green Limousine. I will have to forego my circle pit fun for some adult contemporary sing alongs.
I am ALSO GOING TO SEE THE POLICE on July 19th. Jessi bought me a ticket because we found out my cousin Jenny is coming up that weekend. We haven't seen her for about 10 years and she really loves The Police so we are all going together. We are all sitting in the back of hershey stadium...but who gives a crap. It's the police!!
Other shows?? Dropkick Murphy's at the Silo...in READING?!?!? Never in my wildest dreams did I think DKM would come to Reading, PA. NEVER. I almost peed my pants when I saw it when I was at Repulsion (awesome punk shop in West Reading) today.
Also might go see Piebald with steve in a couple weeks. Which is also at the Silo. I like that I don't have to travel to Philly for these shows. This is why the Static Age should come here...because I'm tired of going all the way to Philly and then having them only play 6 songs. At least I can drive 5 minutes into town instead of they came to Reading.
This is my last summer to have fun. Next year I'm going to be on a search for jobs. I need to make the most of it. Like right now, it's 9:30pm. Technically I should be getting ready for bed because I have to work at 6am tomorrow but instead of sitting here typing out a very long, very overdue journal entry and waiting to go out to Malibooze with some people from work for Ham and Cheese's 22nd birthday. I figure I have an energy drink in the fridge so I can get through 8 1/2 hours of foodstamp lines on 3 hours of sleep. Oh yeah. I'm young. I can handle it. Just for the record, my vision gets blurry when I drink energy drinks...but I continue to drink them anyway! They keep my going going....going....crraassshing. It's alright though--for drinks that are probably going to send me to an early grave they taste so good and make me completely delusional.
Oh and just for the record everyone. I got my 3.0 for the semester. I ended spring 2007 with a 3.28 GPA. I had 5 Bs and 2 As. For having 8 classes(I know the grades don't match--but one was a lab that combined with the lecture grade) and working 30+ hours a week I think I did pretty well. Next semester I am pro-seming and then student teaching in the spring. Nervous and excited about that....
My new favorite place to hang out : Haute Chocolate. The premier chocolate bar in Reading, PA. I have never had chocolate drinks so good. EVER. Everyone that lives in the area needs to go there. It's wonderful. Crystal (my best friend eveerrrr) and I spent three hours there the other week. Brought Anne and Jessi(sister) along with today. They loved it too. Indian food + haute chocolate+repulsion=best day ever.
I think that's all I have going on right now. I'm going to go close my eyes for awhile and think about Keith Olbermann:D haha.
I'm out.
I like having this as a public forum. I like being able to express myself and not have to censor what I say. I have never been one to post ridiculous sailor-talk...except when I was in high school and if any future employers would stumble upon this and look over the past 6 years worth of entries--they'd know that most of that came out in high school. My rebellious stage.
Certainly I still have a sense of rebellion about me that future employers in the education field may be apprehensive about. I'm not the normal teacher candidate. If I could have spent the rest of my life working in a small hole in the wall used record store, dying my hair blue and wearing crazy clothing I would have. I would have played bass forever in a band going no where if it was conducive to our capitalistic society. Unfortunately America does not offer that sort of opportunity. Instead I had to look into things that may interest me. History interests me and helping people interests me as well. So teaching history was probably the most obvious solution to my future career dilemma. Certainly education is a very conservative career--but it's something I care passionately about. To me it's worth that little bit of self-censorship.
Even though I think making private profiles goes against the entire principle of social networking, I had to do it. Although I think it's wrong that our first amendment rights can be limited on the internet--I will bow to the pressure when it comes to myspace and facebook.
Yet I will still let my thoughts flow freely on livejournal. I will never give in to that. My thoughts should not be exclusive to those that I know. The whole idea behind the internets is to connect us to people around the world. I don't need to make this exclusive to the people that I can just speak to. I don't need to write out a bunch of my thoughts for them I can just tell them those. I can sit at haute chocolate for three hours spilling hot chocolate milk shakes, supporting a local business and talking about real issues in the world with real people I know. I don't need the internet for that. I do think there is purpose in continuing to allow my thoughts on the world and the things around me open to people wherever they are in the world. Whether they agree or disagree.
Yet again my entry here has gotten very long. I wrote something similar on facebook when I explained the reasons for closing off my profiles access to the web at large yet I think those goes a little deeper. This journal has grown up with me since high school. I am now entering my last year of college and I really don't think censoring it now is going to help anything. There is over one thousand entries on here. Everything I thought was exciting and spectacular I put in here from the time I was in 10th grade to right now. I like that.
let me just say a few things that are going to happen this summer. One, I'm going to see the Goo Goo Dolls one last time on this tour. I didn't exactly want to go but melanie persuaded me. We're going July 27th to the Atlantic City show. Unfortunately it is the SAME DAY as the Dead 50s come back show at the Silo. I love the Dead 50s so much...and they are playing with Big Green Limousine. I will have to forego my circle pit fun for some adult contemporary sing alongs.
I am ALSO GOING TO SEE THE POLICE on July 19th. Jessi bought me a ticket because we found out my cousin Jenny is coming up that weekend. We haven't seen her for about 10 years and she really loves The Police so we are all going together. We are all sitting in the back of hershey stadium...but who gives a crap. It's the police!!
Other shows?? Dropkick Murphy's at the Silo...in READING?!?!? Never in my wildest dreams did I think DKM would come to Reading, PA. NEVER. I almost peed my pants when I saw it when I was at Repulsion (awesome punk shop in West Reading) today.
Also might go see Piebald with steve in a couple weeks. Which is also at the Silo. I like that I don't have to travel to Philly for these shows. This is why the Static Age should come here...because I'm tired of going all the way to Philly and then having them only play 6 songs. At least I can drive 5 minutes into town instead of they came to Reading.
This is my last summer to have fun. Next year I'm going to be on a search for jobs. I need to make the most of it. Like right now, it's 9:30pm. Technically I should be getting ready for bed because I have to work at 6am tomorrow but instead of sitting here typing out a very long, very overdue journal entry and waiting to go out to Malibooze with some people from work for Ham and Cheese's 22nd birthday. I figure I have an energy drink in the fridge so I can get through 8 1/2 hours of foodstamp lines on 3 hours of sleep. Oh yeah. I'm young. I can handle it. Just for the record, my vision gets blurry when I drink energy drinks...but I continue to drink them anyway! They keep my going going....going....crraassshing. It's alright though--for drinks that are probably going to send me to an early grave they taste so good and make me completely delusional.
Oh and just for the record everyone. I got my 3.0 for the semester. I ended spring 2007 with a 3.28 GPA. I had 5 Bs and 2 As. For having 8 classes(I know the grades don't match--but one was a lab that combined with the lecture grade) and working 30+ hours a week I think I did pretty well. Next semester I am pro-seming and then student teaching in the spring. Nervous and excited about that....
My new favorite place to hang out : Haute Chocolate. The premier chocolate bar in Reading, PA. I have never had chocolate drinks so good. EVER. Everyone that lives in the area needs to go there. It's wonderful. Crystal (my best friend eveerrrr) and I spent three hours there the other week. Brought Anne and Jessi(sister) along with today. They loved it too. Indian food + haute chocolate+repulsion=best day ever.
I think that's all I have going on right now. I'm going to go close my eyes for awhile and think about Keith Olbermann:D haha.
I'm out.