Recently I noticed that my Facebook “photos” tab has been posting my friends’ old photo albums. I am not sure whether it’s a Facebook malfunction for my personal account or if it is also happening to other accounts (feel free to comment if this is happening to you too!) but, as I skimmed through some of these albums last updated in 2006, it made me realize how much we change the content we upload to our social media sites as we get older. I was able to sign up for Facebook when I was only a senior in high school. This allowed me to post things such as…what college I got into…photos of my graduation ceremony… or who’s basement we could hang out in that weekend. Fast forward to freshmen year in college. I was probably updating my Facebook status about 3 times a day, writing on the walls of people in my dorm who lived 10 feet down the hall from me, and uploading photo albums of my weekend festivities every Sunday.
Years later, I am out of college. I rarely update my status, I struggle to take enough pictures that would be an appropriate number to even make a Facebook album, and my friends only write on my wall when they are bored at work. I still use Facebook just as much as I once did, or more with the simplicity of the Facebook iPhone application, but I am more aware of the content I allow hundreds of people to view.
This young woman is clearly not concerned with the fact that companies are now scouting out the social media sites of potential employees.
