In the eyes of the netizens...

Many, many moons ago, the company I worked for had a dinner and dance... It was supposed to replace the annual company trip... the economy was bad and flying everybody to an island resort might not be the best thing to do... Anyway, it's the thought that counts and everybody had a great time.

We had activities during the day and a dinner and dance that night... I was snapping away with my camera throughout the whole event. Mostly, it was pictures of me with a colleague or a group of colleagues... during the dance, most of us were on the dance floor and I was snapping away... got some really great candid shots... then one of my colleagues tapped me on the shoulder... he said "H, take a picture"... it ended up being a picture of him with a female colleague of ours...

As usual, almost all the pictures ended up on Facebook. We went on for a couple of weeks, making funny comments about all the pictures from all the different cameras that were there... and then came the rogue comment, from that guy's wife!!

I asked him whether I should accept the comment, and he said he was already in trouble with his wife over the picture, and not accepting the comment would mean he had something to hide... so just accept the comment and also her 'friend request'... I did and thought it would be the end of the story...

Last week, all hell broke lose!! She decides to add another comment to the picture... "what a nice couple!"... a friend of mine tried to do damage control by putting a link in the comments to a picture of the female colleague and her husband... I talked to her about it and she asked me to totally remove the picture, which I did... I later found out from her that the guy's wife has been 'adding and harassing' whole office on facebook...

To make matters worse, my boss found out about it... I had a little chat with him, and it was decided to take off all pictures of company events from all social networking sites... either that or limit the viewership to just the office folks... it would be an unofficial company policy... the 'damage control' friend and I became my boss' online eyes and ears, to make sure stuff like this don't happen again...

First of all, I am stationed on project site... social networking sites are on the few ways I stay in contact with the happenings at the office... secondly, the guy fucked up and the whole office is paying for it!!!!

If you were to take picture with a member of the opposite sex, make sure that there are plenty of pictures with various members of the opposite sex... that way it looks like there's nobody special, which is really the case...

It turns out that was the only picture of him and another girl!! Mon Dieu!!

How things have changed... it used to be rumors and speculations that got you in trouble in the past... nowadays, Facebook does it for you! Same goes for Twitter... I haven't had the chance to use that service, but from what I've heard so far, quite a number of people have gotten screwed for a comment they left on Twitter...

I have a friend who has given me strict instructions not to leave any comments on her facebook page because she has an over-jealous boyfriend...

In an attempt to safeguard my internet profile, this blog is anonymous... hell, you can't even tell what country I'm from, can you? I have totally avoided giving names, places and even mixed the spelling between American English and British English...

We try to be fully connected with the world but yet we have to hide our true self in front of the eyes of the netizens... go figure...