If you post it on the internet, people are going to see it.
Eden Prairie High School is the latest with a pictures-on-Facebook-drinking-scandal. (Thanks to Lileks for the link.) One of the students interviewed for the story says: "Everyone thinks it's pretty weird. I think it's a huge invasion of privacy." No dear, that's not how the internet works. Reading your diary is a huge invasion of privacy. Reading your files on your personal computer is a huge invasion of privacy. Once you put something on the web, you're releasing it into the wild.
As always, these kids think it's terribly unfair that their actions have consequences. If you sign a pledge not to drink (as is required to compete in certain high school athletics), and then you drink, you get benched, or whatever the pre-defined punishment is for breaking that pledge. The kid who says that two of the four photos were from before he joined the lacrosse team has a compelling argument for not being punished for those photos.
Honestly, what is wrong with kids today? In my day, when underaged kids drank, it was clandestine, and no one put pictures up on the fridge the next day.
As always, these kids think it's terribly unfair that their actions have consequences. If you sign a pledge not to drink (as is required to compete in certain high school athletics), and then you drink, you get benched, or whatever the pre-defined punishment is for breaking that pledge. The kid who says that two of the four photos were from before he joined the lacrosse team has a compelling argument for not being punished for those photos.
Honestly, what is wrong with kids today? In my day, when underaged kids drank, it was clandestine, and no one put pictures up on the fridge the next day.