Kurt M. Scott, 26, is the newest and youngest member of our School Board. He also blogs. Three years ago, he reportedly blogged about using drugs. And now it’s coming back to haunt him. Mr. Scott has related that he considers this to be a closed matter and called this Tennessean article about “the politics of personal destruction.” This is a soapbox issue for me. And I’m going to editorialize a bit about this. As a parent of two children who love technology, this is something we talk about a great deal at home. If you post something on Facebook, on MySpace, or in a blog, your comments are out there in the World Wide Web forever. Not for a week. Not just for that day. But forever. Throughout the world. You can google search anybody and obtain great detail. And employers are now hiring people specifically to search google, to search Facebook, to look for blogs. And if you post embarrassing pictures, or post how drunk you got at that cool party you and your friends went to last night, then you reflect your character. You reflect the choices you make. No matter when you made them. Whether you made those choices when you were 15, or 18 or 25 years of age. So, please, just ask yourself before you post: Do you want that drunken image or that “I used drugs” post to come back and haunt you when you’re mature enough to be ashamed of it all?

And that’s my blog post of the day.