Once something is online, it's no longer private.

Brian Holloway, Former NFL star's house in New York was completely trashed due to the 300+ kids who decided to break in and throw a huge party while he was in Florida. Holloway was contacted about this, and decided he wasn't going to press charges at first, but invite them back to clean up his house and return what they took and he would provide food and drinks for them. After, only about four kids showed up to clean, he decided to look online.

With today’s technology it's easy to find what you're looking for, because once it's online it's public. Holloway started to find many of the students from various videos, instagrams, and tweets. He also sent out things looking for help to find all the students. He has found a lot of them and his list keeps on growing, to learn more about this you can go to his site, http://helpmesave300.com/.

What's weird about this, is that the students’ parents are now trying to defend them and instead sue Holloway. Because, they believe that because he is making these pictures public he is invading the kids’ privacy and doesn't have the right to do so.

I don't get this because the kids already published all of these themselves, it's not like he's doing anything they didn't already do. And, police officers often use media to investigate things. The parents trying to sue him for taking the pictures they already published is like, a murderer suing someone for taking his tweet that could say something like “I just killed someone” think about that? The kids were obviously at the party and clearly wanted everyone to know that they were.

Holloway also had his grandsons headstone taken that was a granite eagle, then found a picture on Instagram from that night, that was a girl and THE eagle saying “Meet eagle” are you really trying to defend your child saying she wasn’t at that party? And, that Holloway doesn’t have the right to use that picture? Because, I’m pretty sure she doesn’t have the right to break into someone’s home and steal his property.  I don’t know, maybe I’m wrong on that one. But, I really don’t think so.

 

Everyone that is on social media should be totally aware that once you post something it’s public and out there forever, you can’t control whose hands it falls into. And, if you don’t want someone to “invade your privacy” then don’t publish it to the public. It’s that simple.
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