Could Your Facebook Profile Throw a Wrench in Your Future?

In a world like today where everything is televised and electronically available to pretty much anyone at any time of one's day, it's kind of hard to not use social media. In the United States, at least. Third world countries, my heart goes out to you, but you also don't have the same problem that derives from social media. This problem would be that employers use social media as a method of research when hiring, something a lot of people applying for jobs are not okay with. Now, I do not personally own a website or anything as big as that, and I wouldn't count this as social media or anything either, but I do own accounts across multiple social media sites. I have posted somewhat personal stuff to these social media outlets, but I haven't posted things that are super personal I'd never be okay with anyone seeing. What I classify as "public" is not much, maybe pictures from going to a theme park, or cute pictures with your family, posts about family trips or special events taking place. I would draw the line at that, anything people don't need to know should not be put up there. Comedians making jokes and writing funny posts about life, that's ok, but if you want to express how you feel about someone in a negative connotation, that should be left unsaid. Who knows who's going to see the vulgar language you may include in that post. Could be your future boss. Or not. He probably wouldn't hire you if he saw stuff like beer pong and you getting wasted at a party or doing drugs or being a terribly rude person. Those things, should you choose to do them, should be private. Otherwise, they could really hurt you in the long run.

Focusing On Friends

This is a short story from the mind of Steve Tesich, one specifically about men and women, how they are different in friendships, and how they are more than that the same. Tesich starts the story comparing his friendships to cinema, and more importantly how the ones between him and men are "shot" differently than the ones between him and women. He says that for women, the camera work is done very much up close, whereas for men, it is shot from a further view. By this he means that with women it's all so personal, and a lot of the memories he seems to remember of his female friends is all talk, not action. This contrasts greatly from the memories of his male friends, of which he also specifically lists a few names, Slobo, Louie, and Sam, in how they mainly portray the background and the setting and actions better than intricate interactions. His female friendships were all about love, and expressing the words "I love you" freely, but too freely, to the point where, as Tesich describes it, "the emotion was nailed down". This means he would say it almost too much, therefore tearing apart it's meaning, leaving him with empty words when he would say the phrase "I love you". When he talks about the men, however, it has to do with him never saying it enough, like he couldn't almost, as if he had an emotional and mental block stopping him, not because he was scared to say it, but because he could just never express it right. He makes it a point in the end of the story that he will change his ways, and make each friendship more like the other, while striving to find a middle ground.