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Originally Posted by UGAalum94
I can't imagine consciously choosing booze, but I can see deciding that I wanted to be free to post pretty close to whatever I wanted rather than having to filter it though someone else's group standards, especially when I was 21 or so.
Even here and now when I'm a lot older and not posting photos, I have enjoyed not having the GLO reference in user name more that I would have guessed when I started.
I didn't get the feeling that Taualumna had the big personal investment in the issue that some people were reading in her posts, but I understand some of what she's feeling in terms of not seeing much fundamentally wrong with alcoholic drinks and therefore finding any strict absolute policy a little rigid. I think it can also be irritating when folks latch onto certain rules about how the group looks while ignoring or promoting images that might be equally distressing to some group members: Barbie chapters, etc, (which I'm not trying to suggest anyone in this thread would do, just that messages about image are trickier than maybe they'd first seem).
ETA: In practice one probably should de-tag a photo like we discussed. In theoretical terms, I don't think she should have to. If it's not illegal or embarrassing and she was drinking in public at the time the photo was taken, it seems a little silly and maybe even hypocritical to worry about de-tagging it. People should think carefully about what they have in their profiles, but in cases where there's nothing wrong with a photo. . .
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Rules are there for a reason. And in this case, they are up for change. If your chapter has a rule you don't like, why complain about it instead of change it? My chapter doesn't seem to have a problem with it, fortunately. We all love facebook, but I'm thankful my girls don't take it so seriously that they would take issue with just refraining from posting pictures with alcohol.
I just don't really care. If someone were telling me I couldn't drink, I would raise hell, because that's a right the government actually gives me...it's one of the few you are automatically given. But I wouldn't choose to have alcohol on my profiles either way. If I've got really amazing pictures from a party and there's a beer in my hand I'll leave that for my picture board in my apartment, no big. I'd rather choose that than leave pictures up that might give future employers the wrong impression.
And as I've said, the few ruin it for the whole. It would cause WAY more problems to leave the rule open to interpretation of situations than to just say hey...don't do it.
I guess I'll just never understand what the big deal is. Being part of a group means compromise. It's just not a big thing to ask.
And lastly, I don't think people focus on this "rule". It was made the focus of this thread, but for my chapter at least it's not something we often have a problem with in the first place. With very few exceptions our girls are cooperative and mature enough to just do the small things they are asked to do, like keep their pictures with booze to themselves.
If people in the past hadn't acted ridiculous (not saying they still don't do it, but it came with the times) and Greeks didn't have such a bad name and weren't pelted with negative publicity then alcohol wouldn't be such a big deal. But it is, and it comes with the territory. Oh well.
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