Gone

We’ve all been there before. We get super upset about something or about someone and we tweet something nasty or post an awful Facebook post and then feel guilty five seconds later. We then hastily delete the comment hoping that nobody saw it n the moments it was up. However, it’s time you heard the truth, nothing is ever really gone for good.  

Earlier this semester, a recent alumnus posted a comment in our private sorority Facebook group when she got angry about something. It was only up for about five minutes, but that’s all it took. This hateful post was screen-shotted by only 15 or so girls out of the 240 that were in the actual group. The post went viral, being texted to almost every girl in the chapter within the hour. She thought if she deleted it fast enough, nobody would see her hasty post made in anger, but she was wrong. Later that week, she needed a favor from the sorority for her work, but we all remember what she had posted and nobody wanted to help her because we were so hurt. In five minutes she ruined her trust with the organization.

This is just an example of the fact that we should all think twice before hitting that send button on anything we type. Even a text message could be incriminating. In today’s technological world, we can’t give our enemies or our friends any more ammo than they already have to bring us down. It’s so easy to be ruined over a post on Facebook, or a tweet, or a text or even an email. A rule of thumb I have heard many people use to keep their public information acceptable, is to ask yourself, “If my grandmother read this, would she be ashamed/embarrassed of me” if the answer is yes, then maybe you shouldn’t hit send.

In the end, nothing is ever gone, people will save what you put out there on the Internet and use it against you. The only ting we can do to prevent this, is to be weary of what we post on the Internet.  Nothing is ever truly gone.