I'm changing my name on Facebook due to the overwhelming amount of adults who are "friending" me. My profile picture is of me posing in front of a giant wooden penis and I don't want to change it. It cracks me up every time I log in and there I am standing next to a penis twice my size. It's meant to make my friends laugh and it presents a picture of me. I'm inappropriate and immature but that doesn't mean I don't take work or school seriously.
Here's my point, the vice president of Saatchi & Saatchi, my aunt Marcia, added me as a friend on Facebook. I'm supposed to have an interview with her for a job and a lot of what I do on Facebook is not work place appropriate. Besides my profile picture, I post Youtube videos of explicit rap songs by Ludacris and Lil Wayne. My about me says something like, "I enjoy baby birds and speed traps." All my pictures are pretty much of me smoking and boozing like a hound. Lets just say my Facebook page doesn't present a good picture of me.
I can just imagine our interview now. "So Nina, you like cigs, booze and dicks? You want a job?" Well, I hope that's what happens. But seriously, do I need to modify my Facebook? One of my professors in the J-school said your Facebook page is a great opportunity to market yourself if you can control what your friends post. Well my Facebook page looks nothing like my resume and I don't want it to. So there it is, the adults are going to have to love it or leave it. And when they leave it, I hope they are repulsed by my profile.
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