David Baldacci will ruin you

Young people are constantly being warned that the information they include in their Facebook profiles could eventually come back to haunt them. Photographs of bacchanalian escapades, catastrophic sartorial decisions or intimate moments with toothless, tattooed recidivists are images that could prove embarrassing to Facebook participants in the years to come. As they mosey down life's highway, young people are cautioned, they may want to bury all evidence that they once spent a summer in Venezuela helping Hugo Chavez complete his society's leisurely transition from democracy to fascism, or that they once thought it was a good idea to date a mercenary, a Marilyn Manson look-alike or Hugo Chavez

By Joe Queenan

June 22, 2008