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Facebook Embarrassment.

dannyshenanigan

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I like many people today have a facebook account, or I did. I check it about once a week or so and am not an active user. I use it to contact old friends that I would not have normally been able to find. I never post anything personal or take it very seriously so it was to my great surprise that I would be humiliated by it today.
Let me preface the story by saying that I am a 26 year old male. I have facebook friended my mother and several other aunts and uncles, and cousins and such. Even though I'm really embarrassed I still can see a little humor in my situation.

One of my friends decided he was going to upload several videos that he recorded 5 years ago. There is no real obvious indication that the videos are old and that I was 21 at the time. The video is of a party at his house where I am clearly in the backround so he tagged me. I always conduct myself with dignity, this being no exception.
The problem is that my friend lived with his then 19 year old brother. Some of his brother's friends came over whom I assumed would be around his age. Unbeknownst to me some of them were 18 and apparently still in high school.

The video is of people playing drinking games like beer pong and quarters and the like.
He gave the video's titles like "Corrupting High School Kids part 1." It was up for a couple hours before I untagged all of them. I'm not sure who saw them but I am really paranoid; because I look like a creepy 26 year old man drinking with high school kids.

Thanksgiving and Christmas may be awkward around family members who may have seen the video. I'll admit it was probably unwise even when I was a younger man to be in a situation where I would be drinking with highschoolers. I'm thinking about sending an apology to everyone and try to explain, but I'm worried that might not be the best approach.
I'll probably delete my account soon after.:blush:
 
Just write in the comment section of each video "I was 21 then"

or something to that effect, no big deal.


Or at least it wouldn't be in my family.
 
You can edit your settings so that people can't see tags of you, I think.
 
I took the tags out, the problem is that it was up for a couple hours before I got to it.
My true dilemma is that many people in my family would find that even at 21 drinking with high school kids is unacceptable and creepy. I can aplogize and draw attention to it and look like a minor creep to some, or I can say nothing and hope nobody saw it, but risk looking like a huge creep.
 
i think you should stage some pictures of you drinking alcohol with grade 8 and then grade 4 students in an attempt to convince everyone that all the pictures are a part of a larger artistic project attempting to express something or other about the state of society. maybe throw in some pictures of you getting drunk with seniors.
 
Bah, I wouldn't even say anything to people about it. Chances are, no one saw it.

I would also put foot to arse on that 'friend' of yours.
 
i think you should stage some pictures of you drinking alcohol with grade 8 and then grade 4 students in an attempt to convince everyone that all the pictures are a part of a larger artistic project attempting to express something or other about the state of society. maybe throw in some pictures of you getting drunk with seniors.

That is actually a good idea. I actually do art projects all the time, I haven't done anything quite like that, but...
 
If you're family is that naive as to what happens at parties, I feel sorry for them.
 
Yeah, I say just deal with it. Highschool kids drink, and they play beer games. You can take credit for making sure nobody got alcohol poisoning.

Plus, it's <> Facebook videos. I'll give you 80% odds nobody in your family bothered to watch it.
 
Don't apologise. Firstly, the chances are that no-one saw it, and secondly, the chances are that no-one who saw it cares. If they do, that's their problem, not yours. Pretend that nothing happened, and if someone brings it up in your family, then consider apologising for it, or take a moral stance of not apologising due to the easily offended ways of those in your family.
 
If you're family is that naive as to what happens at parties, I feel sorry for them.

Here's the thing, about a year ago I had a 19 year old cousin get into an accident after drinking at a party, she was physically unscathed, but she got a D.U.I..
From their reaction to this incident I know that many of my family members are very serious about underage drinking parties.
The situation I was in during the video party was a safe environment, and nobody drove home drunk; but I'm very wary of them finding out I was involved in this when I'm 21 let alone if anyone thinks I did this when I'm 26 :(.
 
At first I was reading it and thinking, "there's nothing wrong with drinking with people only a little younger than you".
Then as I read down the page, I realised; "oh wait, America. Drinking age there is higher than everywhere else.
 
That's why I dont use Facebook.
 
Spike the eggnog and get your family hammered. Have a camcorder handy. Blackmail.
 
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