The Oh Shit Moment... The reason we don't put information online

So a couple of weeks ago I wrote a blog questioning how much you information you should include in your online profile...  Well, today I see this article on the yahoo front page about a girl who posted a birthday invite, but failed to adjust her privacy settings. 

Poor, English girl Ms. Rebecca Javeleau was turning 15 and put her birthday invite on facebook, but made the invite viewable to anyone.  Apparently, 21,000 people RSVP'ed yes to attending her party - including some "fake" celebrities - including Justin Bieber (apparently she was upset, even if the Bieb was attending!).  While facebook took down the event page for her party, fan pages were even put up - including one titled, "HER PARTY WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY" which already had 1,200 likes.  (Don't tell me she isn't the least bit excited about that).  But apparently her Mom is now extremely pissed off, and has cut off her computer privileges, the party will not take place, and the police have been called in case there are party crashers.     

OK, first off.  Don't tell me that young Ms. Rebecca didn't know what she was doing.  Any 14 year old knows more about facebook than the average american knows about computers in general.  I'm sure she specifically made that birthday invite public because she wanted to have more people come - she's a young girl - she wanted to have a par-tay!  Now, for 21,000 people to come, that just went a bit way way too excessive.  She was thinking that if she made the invite public those hotties in the next town over might come, or that older guy might show up with beer.  WOW.  God, we are stupid. 

So what's the moral of the story.  Better safe than sorry.  Any shit that you put on online can get spread in a heartbeat.  You put some kind of private information up there and all of a sudden, there is a facebook fan page for it.  Lets see, lets take Mona (fake name), and she lives in Anywhereville - she likes to party, especially at the 4 Courts Irish Bar.  Hey Mona, guess what... anyone can start stalking you.  And there are people out there that can and will.  People are crazy out there.  Be careful.