Give me a break!

I'm serious (and not just asking for a Kit Kat...)! The celebrities on social media have got to learn from their peers' mistakes. The words that are used online within captions are terrifying, and we have all been around social media long enough to know what is right and wrong. While I was reading USA Today yesterday morning, I saw an article about Madonna's poor choice of words on Instagram.

Here is the link to the article:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2014/01/18/madonna-instagram-slur/4636491/

Madonna did come out and apologize for the use of a racial slur on Instagram, but ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?!? She used the N-word in an Instagram showing her son boxing... The fact that this is news and that social media users have not figured out that social media is not private is appalling. We have seen how Paula Deen lost many of her endorsements for using the same word, and other celebrities are losing a lot of respect for similar problems. Social media is not the place to call someone a word that remains offensive to a large portion of the population and that our mothers would be ashamed to hear coming from our mouths. Celebrities and many of my "friends" on social have no control over themselves, and it needs to stop. We need to use Madonna and similar celebrities to show us what not to do.

When I post anything on social media, I like to think about who could possibly see my posts. Here are just a few important people who can read my posts: my grandmother, pastor, father, mother, aunts, uncles, brother, cousins, past teachers, past and present employers and many more. Do they want to see me having fun with my friends? YES. Do they want to read an offensive comment that will keep me from getting a job? NO.

It is time for all social media users to clean up their act before it's too late. Maybe one day our children will be able to see these "permanent" posts when they Google our names in the future. Anything is possible.

P.S. If you took the time to read this, thank you! This is my first blog post ever.