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Thu, 02-19-2009 - 7:51pm

In regards to Facebook's recent policy about being able to use people's info even when they have cancelled their subscription and their about face over all the outcries from subscribers,here's my question,whatever happened to if you don't want to have something embarassing popping up on Facebook (or anywhere else on the Internet) years from now if you ever do decide to run for public office,how about don't post it on Facebook (or anywhere else on the Internet) to begin with.


Why do I bring this up? Because where I work a 17 and 18 year old were written up yesterday because they used the Internet (the company computer) (Nobody was told which site by management)  on company time on their break to post revealing pictures of themselves to their boyfriends on their company's computer on their company's time.


Needless to say, our manager (who is in his fifties) didn't take kindly to this and wrote them up (we have a policy which says no posting personal stuff on company computer)


They complained bitterly saying they had free speech rights and the manager "needed to get over  it" and "this kind of social networking was the wave of the future and he better just learn to deal with it"


IMO,I think they should have waited until they got home to their personal computer (same with the boyfriends) and then posted that stuff

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In reply to: dana228
Sat, 02-21-2009 - 9:28am

Today there are more provocative images "out there", TV ads/programs, the net, magazines & such. My teen years were in the 50's one didn't see these overly erotic scenes. The 'steamy hot' movie I particularly remember was "Picnic" but nowadays it would probably get a G rating.


>"What in 1955 seemed daring and erotic now comes across as overly obvious and frightfully tame, a great deal of much ado about nothing."<


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Registered: 05-25-2005
In reply to: dana228
Sat, 02-21-2009 - 4:50pm

I agree with that! No one had to tell me either not to do anything racy. It was just common sense. Those two girls i was talking about earlier came in today saying that "thank goodness they had more freedoms than their parents and thank goodness that they didn't have anyone telling them what to do because they found it offensive"(!!!!!!)


What's more shocking is that they said this ALOUD

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Registered: 08-30-2002
In reply to: dana228
Sat, 02-21-2009 - 5:10pm

Last night me and my partner were discussing how important clothes already are to our 5 yo dd and we don't watch TV!. We are suprised that she already has ideas about what is attractive and not about clothing because it's not a big thing in our house. We work outdoors. It's pretty much



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In reply to: dana228
Mon, 02-23-2009 - 6:11pm
I honestly think that some kids now a days have autism or some other chemical imbalance in their brains. With all the chemicals people consume, it's a wonder that our brains are actually working...

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