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Okay, generation after mine. Here’s a little friendly advice for you. My generation - I was born in 1989 - grew up as the internet grew up. We were cautioned by our parents to be careful about what we posted on there because ‘dangerous people’ used the internet to meet other people. (Case in point: TCAP had its original run between 2004-2007, when internet predators became a more mainstream issue.) As a result, we didn’t fling our personal information around wildly, and only shared it with trusted friends once we knew them well.

Facebook became available to the general public during my senior year of high school. Really. Wikipedia didn’t exist during most of my high school career, either. Things change so quickly these days. Kids today - and I can say ‘kids’ now that I turn 23 in April - don’t feel that same need for privacy on the internet. They put stupid things out there. Hell, social media has changed the way people in my generation look at the internet. Look at how many people post pictures of themselves drinking on Facebook and then lose out on jobs as a result. Social media has taken away people’s tact.

I do think the situation in this video could have been handled a little better - just wait until it gets to 7:15 and the father shoots his daughter’s laptop eight times with a .45 - but this, if anything, should be a lesson as to why you need to be tactful about how you use your social media.

By the way, the father responded to his daughter by recording this video, uploading it to YouTube, and posting the link on her Facebook wall. Strangely creative use of social media to drive his point home.

I’d really prefer for this father and daughter to have a serious, calm, adult talk about this issue, because that’s the best way for anybody to come to an understanding and fix problems (and it actually would improve the relationship between the family members and help that kid develop more respect for her parents). It’s sad that this happened, honestly. Really, really sad.