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Originally Posted by giggles7861
Alright - so my Executive Board has been struggling with the whole Facebook/Alcohol image for a while. Obviously, it's wrong to have pictures of yourself with alcohol if you're not of age. It's illegal. However, they have recently decided that they are not going to allow anyone that is OVER the age of 21 to display any sort of alcohol in their pictures either and "action will be taken" if this continues.
I'm 22 years old. If I'm being forced to take down a picture of myself enjoying a beer that I purchased for myself legally, isn't this a violation of my privacy? I'm having trouble conveying this to them. Help would be appreciated  |
What next, is your organization going to prevent you from consuming alcohol in public. I mean come on people, seriously the line has to be drawn somewhere. I mean, now if the picture already breaks existing by-laws such as no drinking in your letters or such that is fine. What if they said you they didn't want a candy bar in the picture cause that would put off the message that your organization is a bunch of obese girls who liked candy too much? Who is going to go for that? The fact is the action is legal and probably breaks no national policies so why push the issue? The fact is, a picture with alcohol in it can sometimes and a lot of times look better than a picture of a girl looking like hell who doesn't have alcohol in the picture but looks obviously drunk. And cups, who is to say there is or is not alcohol in a solo cup? What about cigarettes? Obviously when it comes to facebook discretion should be used as to what pictures are acceptable, but the fact is, I believe there is no harm in a picture of something completely legal.