Pictures of the kids

Re “Facebook never forgets,” Opinion, July 14

I do not know the ages of Maureen O’Connor or Jacob Savage, but when they say that “the incriminating photo, the offensive blog post, that drunken 3 a.m. e-mail -- it could have been any of us,” they are wrong. It could not have been me, and I am certain there is a significant portion of the population that could say the same. Absolute statements are dangerous, even this one.

Furthermore, if this forgiveness mentality represents the coming generations, then we might as well forgo any type of cultural limitations altogether. Do what you want when you are young, anything goes. All will be forgiven.

Barbara Schiffler

Encinitas

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Never mind about the drunken incidents that never die on Facebook. What will happen to all those drunk girls on “Girls Gone Wild” when they or their husbands want to run for office or apply for a job, a graduate fellowship or a place for one of their children in an exclusive school?

The weirdest thing about the current generation is its need to document the kinds of behavior that past generations certainly indulged in -- but had the good fortune to have sink into oblivion, only to be remembered as a laughable reminiscence at reunions.

Some things just don’t need to be documented.

C.W. Tennican

Los Angeles