Busted

  Many young people are making their lives more public by posting pictures of their personal life for the world to see on social networking sites like Youtube, Myspace, Facebook, etc. Its a bad idea considering many colleges, and employers are starting to look at these sites. The sites are even helping crime solving detectives solve cases. The sites can reflect highly on your character and thing you do or say can come back to haunt you later on. 

In an article by Eric Tucker titled Web Photos Come Back To Haunt Defendant a young man, 20, by the name of Joshua Lipton is charged with drunk driving accident where he seriously injures a women. Pictures posted up on Facebook show him attending a Halloween party dress as a prisoner. This proved the evidence the prosecutor Sullivan needed to win the drunk driving case. The prosecutor used the pictures to make Lipton look like he gave no remorse and he partied often. That he didn't care that his victim was in the hospital. the judge agreed with the prosecutor and sentenced him to 2yr in prison. Eric Tucker might have not had such a harsh sentence if not for the pictures posted up. This just made it much harder for him to convince the judge.

Article Teen Misbehave For All Online To Watch by Corey Kilgannon describes how teens are willing to posting up crazy stunts, fights, and silly jokes online to gain attention, street rep or just to be known. Three Freshman girls from North Babylon H.S. had a video broad casted on Myspace, Youtube, and Photobucket of them beating up a 13yr girl. They were arrested.We should be careful with what we post because What we do now can have an impact on us forever. If you were ever applying for college or an internship or your dream job people will look back on that an it will give them a different judgement of you because anything that gets on the internet can get into the wrong hands.

Another article called Young Women Drink, Party, Post by Elizabeth Cohen describes young women ages 18,19 and 20 posting up pictures and videos of them illegally drinking.In one of the stories described a young lady by the name of Laura age 22 a member of Facebook is now more alert. She took down a video of her self drunk after she was called in  by CNN for an interview. She then realized that the video can be viewed by anybody. She previously made changes to her Myspace when her parents told her they'd seen a video of her drinking so she made her page private so only friend could see her page. She feels thankful that her parent also saw it because it was better they seen it then an employer.