August 13, 2007
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Face Book
NASA considers spacewalk to fix gouge in Endeavour
Facebook a headache for roommates, schools
TRENTON, N.J. (UPI) — More than a dozen U.S. universities have expressed a concern that parents have begun using Facebook.com to inspect and reject their kids’ future roommates.
Magda Manetas of The College of New Jersey said concerned parents have begun using the online social networking site to determine whether they approve of their child’s college roommate, USA Today reported Wednesday.
“They were getting an impression — false or accurate — of what the student would be like to live with,” Manetas said of the unusual practice.
Among the concerns voiced by parents are that the Facebook profiles of their children’s future roommates show them to be potential drug or alcohol abusers.
Other parents expressed concern regarding a potential roommate’s sexual orientation, race or religious beliefs.
The practice has even prompted Paul Evans of the University of Wisconsin-Madison to mention it to incoming students and their parents to ensure such problems do not arise.
“It can be a problem, and we’re just trying to warn people about taking everything that they see on there as fact,” Evans told USA Today.What do you think? Should people be judged by what they put on the internet?
Comments (16)
It depends on what it is that’s put on the internet.
i think so cause that person have the control of what they put up there and they are the one whom represent themself on the internet so the answer is YES!
no… Unfortunatly or fortunatly… people don’t live their lives the way they do on the intertet… there seems to be less inhabitions on here and sometimes people stick there foot in it…
Also it would be like looking at an ear and trying to tell if the person it belonged to was good looking… know what I mean.
my parents never bother what we do on the internet because we ourselves knows the limits and boundaries on what to put on the net, and whom to choose as friends.
Hmm.. I commented but it got eaten. Or maybe it will show up later. BTW, you seem to have two copies of this post.
Again, if people put themselves out there for the internet masses, as we all do, how could they not be judged? I got my facebook account when my son went off to college so I could look at his page and his friends. Yep. I know that’s not what it’s meant for, but that’s why I did it.
“Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks”. What you write on the internet, good or bad, reflects the state of your heart (good or bad). It is perfectly appropriate to “judge” (DISCERN might be a better word) who someone is and where they’re coming from, by what they “speak” in their WRITING. Of course, some LIE in what they present on the internet, but we can only take people at face value (in this case, FaceBOOK value-Lol) till they prove themselves untrustworthy.
BTW, did you know you have this same post up TWICE????
Should? Probably not as it is truly not our job to judge, but being the flawed mortals we are, it will happen… it is like I always told my kids, you can’t be judged for what you didn’t say… if you don’t want it coming back to bite you in the behind, well don’t put it in writing!
The Bible tells us we should not judge not even ourselves. Judi
The internet can be deceiving.
If I am the parent and the child is living in my house, yes, yes, yes, I will judge what is going on.
Mt:7:1:”Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, you shall be judged; and with what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you again.”
Lk:6:37: Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:
Rom:14:13: Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother’s way.
Thanks Judi
Randy we hardly ever agree on much but I would defend your right to believe anything you want. I also think we are all a work in progress and maybe I will see more truth tomorrow if I live the truth God gives me today. Truth is open to interptation and so changes. God does not change but we realize more of him each day. Each person is perfect but incomplete. Love to you, Judi
Phil’s questionaire for a roomate when he went off to college in 1994 it said,”want roommate that is neat,quiet,etc.” and we had to laugh cause it was the opposite of him.
When my daughters found out that I found where their blog was, they promptly moved.
What we often have is multipurposes for blogging. Some folks blog for the challenge, others to represent another side of themselves and others have no clue why they are blogging.
If I were to judge a person on why they were blogging they might get offended for the judgements that don’t fall under what they believe they represent. They could resent the judging and be further drawn away from the judger.
Basically judging somethings have no real purpose. We often make snap judgments on strangers but it is a wise thing to judge your friends as less as possible.
People are not always transparent and easy to understand. I myself don’t even understand why I am visiting here….
yes, absolutely. Most of the time, because they can be more anonymous they show who they are inside or what their thought life really is. If you don’t want it seen you should not put it on the net for all to see.