[Buckeye McFrog]

Sad in a way that in the Internet Age everyone knows about this and it will dog her for the rest of her life.

Years ago I lived in a college town where the daughter of a VERY prominent American went down in a drug bust. Both the college and the local sheriff worked to keep it quiet so as to not ruin the rest of her life.

Would you want bad decisions you made at 19 being tweeted all over the planet?

[romanesq]

How true.

[GeronL]

public shame used to help keep people on the straight and narrow, so why not?

-—Here is my confession: FAT & LAZY!!

[mmichaels1970]

Would you want bad decisions you made at 19 being tweeted all over the planet?

No. You're right, it is sad. Sometimes youthful screwups make you a better man or woman in the long run. It would suck to be branded with my mistakes whenever someone chose to search for them.

[annelizly]

not everyone makes stupid mistakes that anyone would care to read about when they are 19, 17 or 18.