UW research on drunk Facebook pics

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UW research on drunk Facebook pics

Glance at college students' Facebook pages and its obvious which ones like to party and drink. There's a UW study that looked at the public photos and determined Facebook pages can be an early indicator of which students are at risk for alcohol dependence and abuse.

Researchers found that students who had pictures or posts about getting drunk or blacking out were more likely to be at risk of drinking problems. That seems obvious, but students who merely mentioned alcohol or drinking weren't as likely to be substance abusers as those who actually put up drinking photos.

Dr. Megan Moreno from the University of Wisconsin-Madison led a team of researchers from her university and the University of Washington. They looked at public photos and posts of 224 undergrads.

More at: http://mynorthwest.com/646/556768/UW-studies-drunk-Facebook-photos

[xchrom]

1. oh. dear. nt

[Kerrytravelers]

2. I make my FB page private for a reason.

I don't want somebody seeing a picture and making a judgement of my entire life. And now that I have to approve all "tags" on FB, I would never approve a picture that might be misconstrued.

[qb]

3. Hmmm...

It's not facebook, but still...

[n2doc]

4. Doonesbury:

[monmouth]

5. Potential employers scour these pages..n/t

[AndyTiedye]

6. If You're Gonna Get THAT Drunk

At least make sure everybody else in the room is too drunk to use a camera!

[arcane1]

7. It also helps people know which friends are assholes, apparently n/t

[Mr Deltoid]

8. There are spider programs that go through facebook harvesting info like this

If you don't want it coming up in a job interview, don't put it on Facebook.

[HappyMe]

9. "Dumbass!" - Red Foreman

I thought it was common knowledge that potential employers take a look at FB.

[pennylane100]

10. One of the few benefits of being old

is that we were able to make complete fools of ourselves before the arrival of the internet and digital cameras. There was the little problem of Polaroid pictures, but they usually disappeared long before the hangover did.

[a kennedy]

11. I just don't "do" facebook

ugh.....

[MineralMan]

12. Why would anyone post a photo of him or herself

on Facebook in such a compromising situation? I was pretty stupid in my 20s sometimes, but never stupid enough to do that. And I wouldn't have posted photos of anyone else, either. It seems to me that anyone who does this to him or herself is too stupid to work for anyone in the first place. Truly.