Sean B. Fitzgerald It doesn’t go something like this, it goes exactly like this.

It’s about time…

Currently, I am in the process of consolidating my "Friend's List" on Facebook. Consolidating is just a fancy word for cutting down significantly. According to Facebook, I have 232 "friends", when in reality, I really consider myself to have four maybe five friends. Anyway, when I first got Facebook, I "friended" every person I ever met. Every classmate from my graduating class regardless of whether I ever spoke with them, some people who were in the grades below me or above me, people I worked with, hot girls that my friends were friends with and even hot girls in my college classes that I was too much of a wimp to actually talk to.

Now, I have begun the process of removing people from this list. This is just Step One of many steps that will inevitably end up with me deleting my account altogether. I really do not need it to be honest. I really have never NEEDED it. I do not do any actual social networking on it. I just use it to see if the people I once knew are doing anything interesting with their lives (Hint: They are not). I am sure I will be deleting it within the next few months.

I've read in more than one place that many employers will not even consider you for a position if they see you have a Facebook account. Which kind of sounds ridiculous, but makes sense at the same time. A company does not want to associate themselves with a potential employee who has pictures of themselves highly intoxicated while grinding with someone who may or may not be a woman (Lucky for me, those photos haven't surfaced). Understandable. That's why I find it fascinating when I peruse through the pictures of some girl I know, I see pictures of them on the toilet after a long night of drinking. Lovely. Are they trying to avoid ever having a steady boyfriend, steady job, steady income, or steady respect from others? And it's not just girls, everyone seems to do it. I've seen pictures of people I know doing keg stands, smoking weed, or vomiting. I do not believe these people read the "Terms of Service" when they checked the "I Agree" box to activate their account. According to those terms, as soon as you put those pictures on Facebook, they belong to Facebook. They are no longer your property. So if you think you'll be safe as soon as you deactivate your account, your wrong. That picture of you face down in a urinal will always be in the hands of someone you don't even know.

It's really unnerving what we can find about each other by a simple Google search. I think it is in our best interests to limit what we put about ourselves out on the internet. Which is why I set up a blog with my name as the URL that expresses my thoughts and feelings about sports and the world. But hey, I'm just taking the bullet for all of us.