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Jon Favreau, Barack Obama’s speechwriter, was tagged in a photo of himself groping a cutout of Hillary Clinton on Facebook. The Washington Post was first to report the news Thursday about the future White House speechwriter. When asked for comment on the story, Clinton’s senior advisor said jokingly, “Senator Clinton is pleased to learn of Jon’s obvious interest in the State Department, and is currently reviewing his application.”
We’ve highlighted numerous times on this site, the result of poor Facebook privacy management. Fortunately for Favreau, there is little chance of any negative repercussions aside from the negative press about the incident. Every week we here of multiple people fired because they posted photos of themselves partying or told their bosses that they were out sick when they were actually hung over from a night of partying.
The Facebook generation is clearly already part of domestic politics and the Favreau incident highlights that. Future politicians of the world will need to be extremely careful about the images and videos that they post on Facebook and elsewhere on the web. While the youth may not understand the future implications of poor decisions being posted online, parents will have to emphasize the importance of protecting their online identities.
Care should always be exercised when posting anything to the world wide web. Editing is as important as forethought. For example, posting “Every week we here of multiple people…” when what was meant was, “Every week we hear of multiple people…” distracts the reader from the content by moving their focus from the topic to a particular error in spelling. We might begin to wonder, does the author not use spell check? Is the author not familiar with the English language? All of which causes us to miss the point of the post.
Even so, I agree with your conclusion. What we post online can come back to haunt us.
I have a craving for a magic spell-checker that’s intuitive enough to know when I mean hear but I spell here.
Hear me now: highlight that here in red, byotch!
I think human proofreading is a fresh new concept, but many times an ignorant spell-checker has saved my life.
Where’s the cardboard cutout?
What a Total non-story, I am not quite certain if some are just being a little OTT PC or if they can’t accept that Barack Obama WON The Election and is Our President Elect!
It is amazing that this photo was first posted on facebook some 11 months ago but it is only now someone has picked up on it, how fast eh?
Jon Favreau is a very talented young guy and will do well at The White House
It is just a shame that more are not concerned about kids dieing in Zimbabwe with cholera or all the debts we have due to the greed of some bringing about the financial crisis, people are losing their jobs and homes!