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Re: Obama to Kids: Want to Be President? Be Careful on Facebook

bustedkeys — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:27:03 -0000

it's interesting of Obama to choose paranoia over a more hopeful view on the youth and their use of social media. i for one am of the position that most, if not everybody, carries around a certain level of baggage. and one's character, by the time they've become president for example, would be judged on their evolution of character and development of maturity rather than based on past mistakes, embarrassments, et al. people make mistakes and if it shows up on the social media sites, let's judge them on how well they have learned and recovered, not solely on errors and pigeonholing them.

Re: Obama to Kids: Want to Be President? Be Careful on Facebook

Jeremy Campbell — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:16:34 -0000

Our world is only going to get more social and connected so this is some good advice for sure. Social media can either work for or against you, it's all up to you on how you use it.

Re: Obama to Kids: Want to Be President? Be Careful on Facebook

merdac — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:15:52 -0000

It doesn't matter in the next 40 years, all the trash people have been hashing, over the past few years will only increase , and even the most cheapest storage in the world will not warrant backing it all up.
So an important point is not to write something you'll regret, to a reputable publication, like NYT or mashable. All the trash thats been written in the early 19th century has already passed for bonfire fodder.

Re: Obama to Kids: Want to Be President? Be Careful on Facebook

merdac — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:06:12 -0000

I agree Obama is the Best, and I'm not even from the US.
But can anybody say .."Google Wave" ?!

Re: Obama to Kids: Want to Be President? Be Careful on Facebook

Trace Cohen — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:13:57 -0000

You would think so right? I can show you countless stories were people got fired for pictures and comments on facebook. Common sense isn't that common sadly...

Re: Obama to Kids: Want to Be President? Be Careful on Facebook

debbieyost — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:10:31 -0000

I agree. I am ashamed at some of the things I used to think and believe when I was a young kid. Sometimes society has a way of forming our opinions for us and not until we have a chance to experience life for ourselves can we take an objective look at things and realize what is right and wrong. I'm glad there wasn't the Internet out there that I might have actually put those thoughts in writing. I think to some extent a young person should not be held accountable for what they think and say when they are still learning but that's not always the case.

Re: Obama to Kids: Want to Be President? Be Careful on Facebook

Kevin Cooper — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:21:42 -0000

More importantly, just have integrity as a person, then you won't have to worry about what you posted in your history.

Re: Obama to Kids: Want to Be President? Be Careful on Facebook

Omar bin Yaroof — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 06:27:18 -0000

He has a point.

Re: Obama to Kids: Want to Be President? Be Careful on Facebook

Levi Lenaerts — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:39:06 -0000

that's a good statement from Obama. But some people might get paranoid by reading this.

Re: Obama to Kids: Want to Be President? Be Careful on Facebook

Name — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:02:08 -0000

"Decade's worth?" Who told you that you use an apostrophe to make a plural?

Re: Obama to Kids: Want to Be President? Be Careful on Facebook

richardkligman — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:07:18 -0000

In other words: Kids, it's ok to do all the wrong things you want, just make sure you are not caught.

Re: Obama to Kids: Want to Be President? Be Careful on Facebook

teamnirvana — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:44:38 -0000

Hope in India we do not have thins kind of prodigy to dig up politician's earlier lives as of now. But, in the future when I reach 45, this might happen.

Re: Obama to Kids: Want to Be President? Be Careful on Facebook

Haumea — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:44:59 -0000

Geez, what's next? Praise for Obama's powerful insight that kids should eat their veggies and floss their teeth before bed?

Methinks this fits into the "common sense" category these days.

Re: Obama to Kids: Want to Be President? Be Careful on Facebook

tuneinturnoff — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:42:18 -0000

Wonderfully sound advice. No one wants an elected official that, in their past, posed for stupid, drunken, or provocative photos. Just ask Palin. Posting it on a social networking site just makes it that much more accessible.

Re: Obama to Kids: Want to Be President? Be Careful on Facebook

Haumea — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:32:41 -0000

Or 3:

Will get highly charismatic people who are masters of deceit.

Oh wait, that's the present.

Re: Obama to Kids: Want to Be President? Be Careful on Facebook

edhowes — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:32:07 -0000

No one in their right mind wants to be president.

Re: Obama to Kids: Want to Be President? Be Careful on Facebook

Trace Cohen — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:46:31 -0000

This is a great day, a president who finally know what is going on! I love it!

Great message though and something that will affect millions of young professionals, thank you very much Obama! Anything online is permanent so please be careful about what you say and do.

Re: Obama to Kids: Want to Be President? Be Careful on Facebook

Sai Bharadwaj — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:31:44 -0000

Perfectly said statement.

Re: Obama to Kids: Want to Be President? Be Careful on Facebook

Ryan Lalonde — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:52:19 -0000

It's pretty much true. Anything you do on the internet today is likely archived for someone to view tomorrow.

Re: Obama to Kids: Want to Be President? Be Careful on Facebook

Jason Rukus — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:09:45 -0000

The DUI numbers for the Senate and Congress are as high as George Bush was in college. So now we have people unqualified to make character judgements using methods not scientifically proven to be effective. This helps us how exactly?

Re: Obama to Kids: Want to Be President? Be Careful on Facebook

iTbay — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:08:15 -0000

slamming a kegger in a pic will be a generally accepted praticse in 2040 lol

Re: Obama to Kids: Want to Be President? Be Careful on Facebook

henryjennings — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:42:55 -0000

Too bad Van Jones didn't hear about this kind of thing a while back lol

Re: Obama to Kids: Want to Be President? Be Careful on Facebook

StayBankdotCOM — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:15:47 -0000

I would be careful about anything posted on the InterNet even if you just want to be a Czar! Anything radical you may have said, can come back to haunt you. I mean if you said you were a Marxist Communist last year, people might notice and wonder how you suddenly were given a powerful position.

Re: Obama to Kids: Want to Be President? Be Careful on Facebook

Guest — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:03:25 -0000

The future of politics will go 1 of 2 ways. 1. we'll get highly charismatic real people in office that speak their mind and the public eats it up. Or 2. we'll get people who are masters of deceit, hiding their past, and PR. I think we'll see more of number 1 because hiding one's past and true sentiments is becoming harder and harder, and we'll have better leaders due to it.

Re: Obama to Kids: Want to Be President? Be Careful on Facebook

Rana — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:02:24 -0000

I'm weary of anyone with a squeaky-clean past -- anyone claiming such is full of it.