TIB Rough Draft

Growing up, I remember always asking my mom all sorts of questions all beginning with “Can I go” then insert whatever lie I had to tell her so I could go do bad things with my friends, and her answer which was always the same “No”. At one point, I got the courage to finally ask her why she would never let me do anything with my friends. She just looked me in my eyesand told me she knows that I was lying and what I really was going to do. That day she told me that I was too different from everyone else to be doing the same stupid things so I had to hurry up and become more responsible. Ever since then, I have tried to be responsible in all aspects of my online life, especially when I am on Facebook.

With so much information readily available on the web, you don't want your personal info apart of that group.  The one site in the world that knows the most about me is my Facebook page. For me, Facebook is like a gateway to an all access world of my friend’s day to day lives, but it can only protect me if I lock the gate after myself.  It has my photo, my hometown, and my date of birth, basically everything short of my social security number on it. With all of that personal stuff on the internet, I believe that to be truly responsible, I have to protect it from anyone who would try and misuse it.

However, I did not always think like this. When I first got online, the last question I could have answered was how secure was my profile. It had got so serious that my sisters had to pull me aside and tell me to quit putting my business online for the whole world to see. But me being young and stupid, I did not even bother to listen to what they told me. I just went about my business and enjoyed my Facebook thinking that nothing bad could ever happen.

Unfortunately, the next day my profile was hacked and I didn't know what was going wrong. I decided to leave it alone till the following day and by then the hacker had destroyed my page. The next day, I was told that my profile was hacked because there were a lot of pictures of bad things on there and nasty comments that were left. It took me awhile to get my profile back and when I did, I finally saw how irresponsible I had been.

Even after that incident, I can still be found on Facebook from time to time, but in a more responsible manner. Now I keep all of my info more secured with the enhanced privacy settings so that only my friends or certain people can see what I'm doing. Hopefully, I can transfer some of those responsibility skills to my actual life.