Another college weekend. Another round of parties. And yet another group of facebook pictures depicting underage drunks with alcohol in hand. If there is one glaring difference between the current working class generation and their children is common sense and a sense of invincibility. Despite all the warnings out there that future employers are looking back at facebook for a more in depth look at who they are hiring, college students seem to be ignoring this in totality. I simply cannot fathom the tradeoff between looking popular (or stupid) from the pictures in return for the possibility of threatening a future job possibility. Employers like this have an unlimited access to anything on facebook, and, social networks such as facebook keep records of everything that has been posted for up to 10 years even after it has been deleted. This certainly paints our generation in a bad light, if not a complete farce that will doom the future of this country. Now my opinion may be a bit strong, but it simply astonishes me that people will risk their future for something incredibly egotistical as popularity. It speaks to a complete lack of common sense, one that the working class generation would not been insensible enough to undertake.
Could it be that this is just a technological extension of the "It can't happen to me" syndrome?
ReplyDeleteAs the infamous Dr. House would say, 'Morons'. It's not a social norm of our society to think to our futures or do anything to keep ourselves safe from anything. We tend to live for the now rather than the later. It's not until we are struck with something incredibly life-shattering that we stop and think about what could happen later down the line.
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