Joshua’s Blog

MySpace is quite a crazy thing. Today, I walked into work and I was told that “A word to the wise, to you, your MySpace, and MySpace blogger friends. What you write and do on MySpace, can and will used against you in the court of law” I was lost, and confused. You may be wonder what I am talking about. Let me explain.

This kid I used to know, but never was friends with him, lets call him Joe. Joe has had problems with the law because of drugs, but he is getting help with it, the best anyone can give him. He goes to school, and has a knife on him. The school decides to over look it since he is a senior, and will be graduating. This is extremely nice of them, but what does Joe do? Joe steals the knife and starts to leave.

So, from my understanding they still look this over, and he just goes to court for the drug related things. He goes to court and they use his MySpace blogs as evidence. Evidence for what? In these blogs he talks about the incident with the knife, and other things about drugs and it shows that he believes the world owes him everything, that he can do no wrong. He does not realize he has a problem, which is drinking one to two bottles of cough syrup to suppress his appetite. Joe does this to lose weight to get into the Army, but that is another story. So, he thinks he does not have a problem and that noting ever will happen to him for anything he does. With the MySpace blogs in-hand, the judge kicked his case from drug court, to criminal court, also seeing that he has a mental issue and needs help.

So the lesson for today? Is watch what you say on the Internet, it can come back to haunt you…

Peace!
Josh