Re: [wc] Politicians' kids in facebook

Fri, 16 Jun 2006 13:37:51 -0700

Ok not an employment story but it is along the lines of "using your real name"... Was sending emails back and forth with a mother on Craigslist. She had an odd email and I thought it might refer to a business. Googled it and it came up on several swinger websites (this was a cached page because you needed a membership to view them). Thought I was going to DIE. I mean come ON get another email address for your extra curricular activities.
4:36 on a Friday. Who REALLY wants to be doing work???
Daria

 
On 6/16/06, Ellen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

yeah I think it reflects badly on the parents, but it would reflect
badly on the parents no matter who they were. I guess in most cases
the public doesn't know who the parents are unless they happen to
know the kid personally from home or something, so it is less of an
issue. I wonder if the literally millions of people who have naked
pics on adult personals have had employment opportunities sabotaged
as a result. I guess most of them don't use their real names.

--- In [email protected], k8 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


wrote:
>
> hahahahahaha.. poor kurtz. so harmed by frist's kids maybe harming
frist.
> how can they be so stupid- this is great. Who's being the old
fogey now-
> "Oh, look what wonkette has gone and done now...."
>
> Gawd.. I would throttle my kidz if they were THIS dumb, unaware and
thought
> they were so untouchable. What a great story.
>
> On 6/16/06, Ellen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I thought this was interesting:
> >
> > Those Darned Kids
> >
> > By Howard Kurtz
> > Washington Post Staff Writer
> > Friday, June 16, 2006; 7:50 AM
> >
> > I'm getting a little tired of reading all these "exposes" of
Facebook
> > and MySpace.
> >
> > Hardly a week goes by without some newscast or newspaper
discovering
> > that it can be hazardous to the college or professional careers of
> > young people to post pictures of themselves engaged in drinking,
> > drugging, loving or other racy activity that might be frowned
upon by
> > some adult in a position of authority.
> >
> > Okay, we get it. Hasn't dumb judgment always been hazardous to
your
> > professional health?
> >
> > It's a legitimate story, but I detect a faint whiff of Old Media
> > getting all exercised about the terrible dangers of New Media--why
> > are all those kids wasting their time blabbing on these social
sites?-
> > -rather than figuring out how to appeal to their young fans.
> >
> > So if college-type kids want to endanger their prospects by acting
> > online like, well, college kids, let 'er rip. But now comes a new
> > wrinkle: Should embarrassing postings be held against their
parents,
> > especially if their parents are, like, politicians?
> >
> > First Wonkette reports that one of Bill Frist's sons has some
weird
> > language in his profile in Facebook (aimed at college students and
> > alums): "Lets bomb some people." (He didn't major in grammar,
> > apparently.) And "FREE DUKE" hanging on his wall.
> >
> > Then Roll Call found another son of the Senate majority leader
> > declaring membership in the "Jonathan Frist appreciation
For 'Waking
> > Up White People' Group" and another group that says: "No Jews
> > Allowed. Just Kidding. No seriously." And there was this
> > gem: "Texans: the lowest form of white man there is."
> >
> > Wonkette posted a picture of the guy wearing--I don't know the
> > technical term--a belt made out of beer cans.
> >
> > Now Wonkette's investigative bureau has uncovered a picture of the
> > daughter of a candidate running for Frist's Tennessee Senate seat
> > under the headline "Bob Corker's Daughter Experiments with
> > Marycheneyism." There is indeed a Facebook shot of two young women
> > doing some serious lip-lock and another involving underwear
dancing
> > of the kind probably not seen at Senate socials.
> >
> > Do I think any of this stuff should reflect poorly on their
parents?
> > No. But it's on a zillion Web sites now. It's too bad the kids
have
> > been singled out because they belong to political families. And
after
> > all, they weren't exactly busted for cocaine or arrested in a DUI.
> > But that's life in the Internet age: Nothing is truly private.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> /k
>


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