From The Eyes of An Observer

I just saw a notice that a friend of mine was tagged on a photo on Facebook yesterday. It really is a big deal. And I hope that my friends are sensible not to tag me on a photo like that. Seriously. Period.

The story is this: He was tagged in a photo by one of his friends/acquaintances on a product that she is selling. The big problem for him was: the product that he was tagged was a Japanese sexy schoolgirl uniform. In short, it’s a cosplay costume to erotically rouse man’s desire. (Sorry for putting it in such a blunt and direct manner. I believe my readers are mature enough to know this.)

Well, I feel sorry for him. His image among his church mates has just gone down the drain. And so is his standing in the eyes of his relatives and parents who are linked with him via Facebook. And all of this happens just because he is an innocent party. Even I do not want to get myself tagged into that sort of photo. Imagine the comments that I will get from my family members.

This reminds me of an article that I read the other day. I will be quoting much from that article in this post. You can read the article here (all thanks to Google!). Mike Elgan’s opinion does make sense. All of us have at least more than one social networks or social groups. And sometimes, the things that you do or your friends do to you on Facebook isn’t intended to all of your ‘Friends’ in your contact list.

I’m sure you wouldn’t want your uncles and cousins see a picture of you have a wild party in Disco or Pub. Nor would you wish your friend to swear on you on the comments you made. And worse still, you swear at your friends back.

And because of this fear, I started to divide my social group into a few categories. Family, Close Friends, Friends, Not So Close Friends, Colleagues etc and made a setting on what type of notification that they would receive. That was done about roughly six weeks ago. Then two weeks ago, I noticed the flaw that I had when I wanted to post a very important article so that every contact in my Facebook would be able to read it. As I have set which category of friends can view my post, I need to edit the category list again so that everyone could read it and re-adjust the setting again the next day or the next three days. Hence, I agree with Mike’s sensible opinion about having a checkbox to allow Facebook users to determine who would be suited to view the post.