Something to Hide? Bieber-Gomez Surprise!

It's Sunday!

A routine check of news media sources following this and the accompanying Twitter feed (@philhollywood) uncovered this news article from "The Blog Herald": Social Media Background Checks Are Becoming More Common by James Johnson. The thesis is with more personal information and opinions available for employers to follow up via Internet thanks to Twitter and Facebook, Johnson recommends users create "private" pages for personal info, and then "fan" pages that are "business friendly".

Since Facebook arrived on the scene, various authors and news media outlets expressed similar refrains about posting personal information and photos online. This would only make sense to someone such as Justin Bieber, who has millions upon millions of fans; The true Bieber and the image-conscious Bieber live two separate lives, and they do not involve a trendy, thirty-minute television sitcom (See Hannah Montana...no, don't!) There is information the true Bieber would share with someone such as the true Selena Gomez, and vice versa; If Bieber shared his views with Selena about his views on French colonialism, he would not do that on his "fan" page; after all, how would the French department store "Carrefour" and its employees feel if Bieber said something out of turn or controversial. Likewise, Selena would almost definitely share on Bieber's fan page that "they were standing at the snack table eating delicious asparagus and low-fat cottage cheese dip"; to tweet or post that on Justin Bieber's wall would not make sense since he was there sharing the vegetable goodness with her at a random snack table somewhere in Los Angeles.

For those who are not Justin Bieber or Selena Gomez, exercising more than a little caution is not too much to ask. If people spent as much time double-checking profile pictures and updating relationship status daily as they do, for lack of a better word, "censoring" their thoughts before posting their feelings online for the world to see, then maybe the lack of authenticity of people would not be the real sticking point to every Facebook privacy argument. The resentment of Bieber fans towards the "BiGo" couple can be traced to an individual yet collective belief shared by every one of those impressionable and jealous souls: No one is good enough for Justin Bieber except the "biggest" Bieber fan of all (each fan points to self).

So, the jealous rage of Bieber fans towards Selena Gomez perpetrates employers to make social media background checks? No! No, no, no no nononono...well, yes.

I don't mind Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez being a couple; I think they are cute. Just look at them...walking down a secluded pathway in the California sun...Selena Gomez laughing at one of the Bieber's intelligent puns, which he threw in after giving his hour-long dissertation about postcolonial and postwar Southeast Asia, while on the way from the music studio to her photo shoot...Justin flawlessly wearing a white T-shirt...ahh, romance...

Wait a minute, he tucked his jeans into his shoes! o_O