Let’s face it. We can’t live without Facebook. We love being nosy and finding out what our friends are up to. With so many social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, the people that we can meet are endless. As a fan of Twitter (when I can be bothered to use it, out of sheer boredom), I am fascinated with the different types of people who follow me. For regular readers of my blog, you know I love watching documentaries, so this post is no different. The show entitled “Don’t Blame Facebook” explored different uses of social networking sites and how they don’t always work in our favour. It seems like they are more of an hinderance than help. I think everyone should be aware that you can never been too sure of who is monitoring, reading or sharing your social media timeline.
Davey Taylor was using MySpace a lot in order to update his friends about his whereabouts and what he’s getting up to. It’s amazing the type of information we give away to strangers when we are updating. Harmless, right? WRONG!!!!! After a night out from a party, he came home to find one of his MySpace followers in his BED. It seems a bit far fetched, I agree, but when he thought about some of the comments he’d been sharing, it was no surprise that the guy knew exactly where he lived. One of the comments he had shared on MySpace was “Moving into my own place tonight…. Finally some freeeeeeedom. Call me the King of George Street!” To me, this was really stupid. You wouldn’t give your address to a stranger on the street so why would you do it online? I’ve said in many posts before common sense isn’t as common as it should be. In fact, that was stupidity. The guy had convinced the flat mates that he was a friend of Davey’s in order to gain entry into the flat. It just goes to prove that you should think about what you write on the Internet. It’s so easy to want to inform everyone of your doings but you never know who is reading it. Once you publish something on the Internet, it is hard to retrieve it.
Camron Reilly was a Scots Guard employed by the Ministry of Defence to protect the Royal family days before the marriage of Kate Middleton and Prince William last year. A few days before the wedding he updated his Facebook status which read “hue and William drove past me on Friday and all I got was a sh***y wave while she looked the opposite way from me. Stupid stuck up cow am a not good enough for them! Posh bi**h … who really gives a f**k about hur”. Firstly, his spelling, punctuation and grammar makes me wonder how he got a job in the first place *rolls eyes and shakes head in disbelief*. Secondly, he has quite an important job so you’d think he’d be a bit more discreet with what he shares on Facebook. It would be really funny if the Queen herself was scrolling through her Facebook newsfeed and came across his comment. MoD were not impressed by it and questioned whether Reilly was capable of protecting the royal family and Kate Middleton, a future queen. He was given a “less glamourous” role within MoD.
There were two friends, Leigh Van Bryan and Emily Banting, who were planning a trip to L.A Hollywood. He was so excited about his trip, he constantly tweeted about it. One of the tweets were “We are totally in LA in 3 weeks on Hollywood Blvd and digging up Marilyn Monroe.” The next tweet “free this week for a quick gossip / prep before I go and destroy America?” was the one that was unknowingly going to get him in trouble when he landed at LAX airport. They searched his belongings as well as going through the content of his phone. In an interview he said “Airport security told me that how I answered his questions would determine whether or not we were allowed in. Then he asked me if I had a Twitter account, and I thought ‘Oh no he’s going to want me to follow him.’” I’m sure security have better things to do than increase the amount of Twitter followers they have. That was a really stupid thing to say, especially on national television. Silly man! Anyways, he explained to the officials that he wasn’t a terrorist and that destroy meant “drink”. They were questioned and booted out of America and sent back to England. He did admit that now, before he sends a tweet, he constantly thinks about what he is writing, how it could be misunderstood and so on. Too late, mate. You should have thought about this sooner.
Moral of the story: If you wouldn’t share certain information with strangers on the street, then don’t share it online. I’ve always thought that social media sites are more hassle than they are worth and these examples prove me right. Think twice before you click the share/send/tweet button.
Yes, you’ve guessed it, time for another post about reality television. Some of you are either jumping for joy or shaking your heads thinking ‘here we go again’. The principle of the show is quite simple. British teenagers take their first summer holiday abroad not knowing that their parents are secretly watching them. It may sound like a silly programme but it is really interesting. The teenagers get up to all sorts, drinking, smoking, getting drunk, having sex. You name it, they are doing it. At the end of the programme, they are confronted by their parents who admit they have been secretly watching their every move. I LOVE IT!!!!!
I’m not very old myself but I am actually disgusted with the stuff they get up to. Call me a party pooper, I don’t care. I don’t understand why people go on holiday and end up doing crazy stuff. It’s as though they leave their common sense at home. Naughty people! In one of the episodes a Jewish guy, who has NEVER had a girlfriend, went on holiday with his friends. He was adamant he wanted to lose his virginity on holiday. Why did he want to do it on holiday? What’s wring with the girls in England? I don’t know what the motive behind it was or whether that was a poor excuse. Either way, this is the kind of stupidity that happens in this show. Anyways, his mum rang him at 11pm and he said he was going to the library. Dude, come on!!!! If you’re going to lie, then you should lie properly. Which sane person goes to the library that late at night? To make it worse, his mother actually believed him. To be fair, his mother seemed a little crazy. Well she must have been to believe his pathetic little story. Mothers, hey! I’m not really bothered about what people do on holiday, but this guy went against his own religion. Maybe he thought that God wasn’t watching him because he was on holiday. SILLY!
I love the way most of the teenagers act like virgins and saints when they are at home. They go on holiday and become a totally different person. Truth be told, they can act like the REAL person that they are when they are away from their parents. The youth of today are a bunch of party animals even though a lot of them don’t have much money. I think a lot of them are keeping up with the Jones’. Rather than spending within their means, they will spend ridiculous amounts of money just to show off to their friends. Pretty pathetic in my eyes, but that’s the way of the world. It’s becoming a popular trend.
In another episode, three guys went on holiday together. One of them wasn’t paying his fair share for the drinks and the excursions, so the other two kept paying for him because they wanted to do things together. On day 3 of the holiday, the guy said he had “spent half of his holiday money”. Why the heck would you go on holiday if you don’t have much spending money? How stupid do you have to be to spend half your money in the space of 2-3 days? When the youth of today do stupid things like this, it’s no wonder I get so angry.
Moral of the story: Don’t do stupid things for a television programme because your parents WILL find out. Sneaky business will definitely get you into a lot of trouble. Be warned!
As you know, I love to watch television. I’m actually surprised I have time to blog seeing how I watch so many programmes. One of my favourite programmes is Banged Up Abroad. It’s pretty self explanatory. It’s about people who get banged up abroad. Ok, that wasn’t funny. Let me try again. It’s about people who get jailed in foreign countries. In most cases, it’s drug related. I don’t get why people get involved with drug smuggling. Call me a chicken but there’s no way on Earth, I could ever get involved with things like that. I say this at the risk of causing controversy but I would rather be locked up in a British jail than any other jail. The reason for this is because in England we have human rights, the correct procedures are adhered and so on. In foreign jails, they have different laws and regulations. More importantly, there is a lot more abuse and punishment. I actually think I’m too cute for jail and wouldn’t like to be someone’s girlfriend whilst I’m locked up.
In one of the episodes, a couple from England took a one way trip to Amsterdam. Whilst they were there, they ran out of money and couldn’t get back home. Yes, you’ve read my mind, it’s a silly idea to go on holiday if you don’t have enough money. Anyway, in the pub, they got chatting to a guy who offered them a 2 week, all inclusive, all expenses paid holiday to Puerto Rico and then £5000 each on arrival back so they can go home. In return of this, they had to smuggle 3 kilos of cocaine each. After a little bit of hesitation, they decided to go through with it. I was watching it thinking “no, you silly people, DON’T DO IT!!!!”. They knew best and didn’t listen to me *sad face*
When they got to Puerto Rico, they had a lovely time there and on the day of departure, they were given the drugs to smuggle back to Amsterdam. These packets were sealed in some “special’ foil and placed in their suitcase. Off they went, nervous at check in, even more nervous through customs. Somehow, none of the metal detectors went off and they boarded the aeroplane. That seemed pretty smooth going until they found out that there would be an interconnecting flight to catch in Mexico. As they boarded the second flight, they were rumbled by airport staff re-checking their bags. GAME OVER!!!!! They were locked up for YEARSSSS. Upon serving their sentence, they were released and sent home to England.
Whilst watching it, I had no compassion for them at all. I don’t have any compassion for ANYONE on the show. You know what you are getting involved with and there’s a chance you will be punished for it, so shame on you. I’m not saying everyone should be a law abiding citizen because that’s never going to happen. But think twice before taking the laws into your own hands or thinking you are ABOVE the law. Is it really worth risking your freedom/sanity/family etc for some money? Different strokes for different folks!
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