keg stand by allygirl520
There are a shit-ton of ways to make a first impression these days, and for a lot of people, real life is at the bottom of the list.
There’s Facebook and Twitter and online bios and MySpace (please tell me you don’t still have a MySpace) and blogging. There’s Flickr. There’s YouTube. And those are just some of the big boys in online persona building (and potentially destroying.)
A good friend of mine just recently got a Facebook profile. He’d been holding out. He’s like a 60 year old nana trapped in a 32 year old man’s body.
What’s he afraid of?
He’s afraid someone is going to tag him doing something horrific. Or post something raunchy on his wall. (He’s not really clear on what a wall is, and thought maybe he didn’t want to let people post to it… I told him to delete his profile right now if he’s not going to let people touch his wall.)
I told him the same thing I tell my clients.
The delete button is your friend.
It’s your profile. If someone posts something inappropriate, delete it. If you don’t want that photo of you doing keg-stands in college, un-tag yourself. You have full control over your looking like a professional or a complete tool.
There are embarrassing photos of all of us out there. We all have that friend from high school who thinks writing “Are you fucking drunk again?” on your wall is funny.
And we all have the delete button.
