I need to find a way to express to my 16 year old niece that her FB is a detriment to her getting into a good college, as every other post is about smoking blunts, fucking, and her unsaid aspiration to win a snooki look-alike contest. Here's the thing: She's actually quite bright, and scores all As in her AP classes. She has a good shot at her first choice, Boston College on grades alone. Her internet presence is classless and stupid.
Spike? It's you. It's really you! My therapist thought I was holding on to false hope, but…I knew you'd come back. You're like…you're like Gandalf the White, resurrected from the pit of the Balrog, more beautiful than ever. Oh…he's alive Frodo. He's alive.
Andrew ,'Damage'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Allyson - Sep 21, 2011 6:00:52 pm PDT #27670 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Sue - Sep 21, 2011 6:01:43 pm PDT #27671 of 30001
hip deep in pie
I'm very sorry about your cat, Epic.
My twitter feed is ablaze with SCOTUS news. It all seems too horrible.
Sue - Sep 21, 2011 6:01:43 pm PDT #27672 of 30001
hip deep in pie
I'm very sorry about your cat, Epic.
My twitter feed is ablaze with SCOTUS news. It all seems too horrible.
meara - Sep 21, 2011 6:05:48 pm PDT #27673 of 30001
Wow, Allyson! Could you convince her to just make it non-public? Or change her name soncolleges can't find her?
sarameg - Sep 21, 2011 6:10:24 pm PDT #27674 of 30001
I have bluntly schooled some of my 16 year old mentee's friends on the topic. Hell, I've schooled her. Bottom effective line is to be blunt honest, tell them while YOU might be ok with it, this is their image they are sculpting, and the viewers are old fogeys who will fucking judge them harshly. Their social life does them no favors. Plus, you don't want to share your personal life with potential employers, that gives them control . Control your image.
le nubian - Sep 21, 2011 6:11:21 pm PDT #27675 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
the SCOTUS decision is depressing. I kind of expected it because it seems like the people of Georgia really want to kill Troy Davis. When you have that much against you, it can be difficult to survive.
Atropa - Sep 21, 2011 6:11:51 pm PDT #27676 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Allyson, I would just tell her "Everyone googles everyone else, including college applicant review boards. What sort of impression do you think your current online self is going to make?"
Amy - Sep 21, 2011 6:13:04 pm PDT #27677 of 30001
Because books.
Both my parents and I friended Ben right away, and he's very conscious of it. He's not really the type to gross on Facebook anyway (every time he catches me swearing, he says I owe him a dollar), but it's nice to know it won't be a problem.
Jake, on the other hand, I had to pointedly tell to make a filter since my brother, his uncle, actually defriended him for the language and the drug references. So proud. Ugh.
Strix - Sep 21, 2011 6:14:21 pm PDT #27678 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I WILL make it to Seattle one day, and dress up, and party with Jilli. I will, damn it.
And it will be SO FUN.
Allyson, that's a scary, scary story. I had not heard that before.
Also, WRT your niece, yeah, if she has more than 25 friends, she can change her name on FB. Most of my ex-students who've friended me have pseuds -- it's hard to figure out that LaDEE J_T STARFL*ER XOXO is really Jane Thomas from my ENG IV class.
And she should do it. Really.
Steph L. - Sep 21, 2011 6:15:40 pm PDT #27679 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
LaDEE J_T STARFL*ER XOXO
Damn it! That name is taken?
Well, I might as well stick with my real one, then.