Alright, I Stumbled on an interesting blog posting tonight, and since it touches on a topic I try to stay abreast of (and it includes a shitton of stupidity,) I thought I would comment.

First - the evidence! Apparently, an intern thought it would be a good idea to lie to his boss and then Facebook his misadventures. While I can’t really comment on the lying part, since I’m probably the worst example of any sort of morality, I can definitely tell that this kid’s a dumbass.

First, he’s drinking Busch Light.

B. He’s in a green fairy costume.

5. He Facebooked about a career-costing lie within a day or so of the actual event.

Granted, the point of the blog isn’t about the stupidity of the kid. It’s about his privacy on the Internet, which is a fantastic oxymoron in itself. Other people may be taking the same path to idiothood that this young man followed, so I’m going to lay out some ground rules.

• The Internet is not private, nor will it ever be. It is public domain, for better or worse. Never expect something you put on the Internet to ever be private. Ever. I could care less if you threw it in a folder with an .htaccess file that asks for a password. When there’s a will, there’s a way.
• Facebook. Everyone who uses this needs to know what it is. It’s not a small inside joke between you and your friends. Every employer worth a damn, every person who can stalk you and use a keyboard, and everybody with an account and some basic knowledge of social engineering will see you profile and everything you put in it.

This reminds me of a group of kids during the summer who were going to be freshmen at PSU (the college I attend / work for) who stayed for orientation. They made a group on Facebook specifically for this event, which isn’t a bad idea in itself. Then these bright future leaders of America decided they would tell each other what booze they were going to bring to the orientation. Stupid, stupid idea when you’re a group that’s clearly 100% underage.

Surprise kids, it turns out the campus police knew how to use a keyboard. They got the room number that the event was being held at, then were able to get 5 or so kids expelled from school before they even attended.

You know what? Fuck it. If you’re dumb enough to actually shoot yourself in the foot technologically without spending the 5 minutes it takes to grasp the concept of public domain, you deserve whatever you get.