Facebook faux pas- The Grope of Audacity?

Here is a picture from Facebook. In it are two of my buddies from college, on the left Jon, on the right, Josh. Looks like they are having a good time, right? A little harmless PG fun with a Hilary cutout. We’ve all been there.

Not quite as harmless. As it turns out, Jon (the one pretending to grab Hilary’s breast) is Obama’s head speech writer, now the newly crowned head presidential speech writer. You can imagine my shock when I was surfing The Drudge Report and saw this photo with a link to a Washington Post article on the homepage. Republicans are on the offensive, feminists are irate, and my buddy John’s post in the White House hangs in the balance, sure to be determined by the level of press and public outcry.

The lesson here- nothing you do is private. This is a picture someone else took, and that someone else had posted on their page. Even blowing off a little steam and having fun at the expense of a rival campaign can cost you your job. This wasn’t the first (Pats cheerleader incident), and certainly won’t be the last Facebook casualty. So before embracing Web 2.0, make sure you’ve cleaned your closet.

~ by childsdo on December 5, 2008.