Wednesday, November 30, 2005
I always feel like somebody's watching me...
posted by Colt45 : 7:21 PM
Do you use The Facebook?
If you're me, no. This is mainly because you have taken a moral stance against it that has nothing to do with morals and everything with "not conforming."
Well done, I must say, on my part.
Particularly because of the photo (left) of the vice president-elect, which the student newspaper ran on Tuesday. The story was slightly controversial, and viewed as tabloid. A random editor was searching the facebook and came upon the image.
The fact that she's 19, duct-taped to a chair and being fed booze isn't so bad, right? I mean there's worse imgages of me on the web. The thing is she just posted that image, after she was elected and after MU has announced a "Task Force" to "investigate" the Facebook. The story's about elected leaders, who are supposed to uphold university policies, not even listening.
But ignore that. Does anyone else find this scary? Task force?
I'm sure everyone's heard of people losing jobs over blogs and what not, but we're the Internet generation. This is our domain. (poor attempt at pun...you know "domain name," get it?...fuck you!) We were fed some lie about the freedom of the Net (except for Sandra Bullock), and now it's more likely to be policed than that hemp-smoking chap's dorm room.
Essentially, we've been dubbed "too dumb" to handle freedom. So, someone's going to hold our hand and explain what it means to put things online.
In other news, a couple hundred newspapers were stolen.
Kansas City and St. Louis media outlets are covering the story tonight.
It appears (note investigation pending) that it wasn't the duct-taped chair story, as much as the ball fondling story that inspired some lads to take the 'Eaters.
A bully for old Mizzou! We do our part to stir the pot.
Do you use The Facebook?
If you're me, no. This is mainly because you have taken a moral stance against it that has nothing to do with morals and everything with "not conforming."
Well done, I must say, on my part.
Particularly because of the photo (left) of the vice president-elect, which the student newspaper ran on Tuesday. The story was slightly controversial, and viewed as tabloid. A random editor was searching the facebook and came upon the image.
The fact that she's 19, duct-taped to a chair and being fed booze isn't so bad, right? I mean there's worse imgages of me on the web. The thing is she just posted that image, after she was elected and after MU has announced a "Task Force" to "investigate" the Facebook. The story's about elected leaders, who are supposed to uphold university policies, not even listening.
But ignore that. Does anyone else find this scary? Task force?
I'm sure everyone's heard of people losing jobs over blogs and what not, but we're the Internet generation. This is our domain. (poor attempt at pun...you know "domain name," get it?...fuck you!) We were fed some lie about the freedom of the Net (except for Sandra Bullock), and now it's more likely to be policed than that hemp-smoking chap's dorm room.
Essentially, we've been dubbed "too dumb" to handle freedom. So, someone's going to hold our hand and explain what it means to put things online.
In other news, a couple hundred newspapers were stolen.
Kansas City and St. Louis media outlets are covering the story tonight.
It appears (note investigation pending) that it wasn't the duct-taped chair story, as much as the ball fondling story that inspired some lads to take the 'Eaters.
A bully for old Mizzou! We do our part to stir the pot.
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