I belong to facebook and really enjoy keeping up with old friends that I haven't seen or talked to in years. I enjoy seeing their family pictures and hope they enjoy the few pictures of my family I've posted. My profile is set to private and I really never gave facebook much thought until last week when I was discussing it with a friend who was very upset over it. This friends does not want pictures of her 13 yr old daughter on the internet, period. She is adament about it. Well, it seems another friend of hers (someone I don't know) posted pictures that included her daughter on her facebook. This gal also posted something about my friend's daughter having surgery ~ it wasn't anything big, just a sentence about praying for so-in-so who is having surgery this week. Well, my friends daughter didn't want anyone outside of family and a couple of other people to know she was having surgery. She is 13 and this was very tramatic for her. She didn't want anyone from her school to know. Even though this friends facebook was set to private, other "friends" of hers are able to read the post and comment. The "other friends", some of who knew my friend, read the post and began calling my friend to find out what was going on. Needless to say, that innocent post caused a lot of stress for my friend and her daughter. A few of these people have children who attend school with the 13 yr old. Now they all know because their parents asked them if they knew about the surgery before they called my friend. Now my friends daughter will have to address this when she goes back to school ~ something she didn't want to have to do!

So be careful what you post on your facebook!