Blogging about blogging

Undoubtedly by now most people have heard of the incident involving Sen. Scott Brown, R - Wrentham at King Philip High School. For those who haven't, in a nutshell, prior to an appearance to address students at King Philip, Brown was made aware of derogatory comments about himself and his family by a few King Philip students and posted at facebook.com. Brown read some of the profanity-laced comments before the assembled students and publicly identified the authors. Sen. Brown has since issued a statement in response to the incident, which can be read here.

The issue has been kicked around quite a bit in the papers, in letters to editors, blogs and elsewhere, so I'm not really posting this as an attempt to rehash it all. I am posting it because it's about blogging. As Sen. Brown said, if you write it, you own it; and I think he's right. What you post can probably be found in the future. So post your thoughts and comments, but you really should think of it as if you're face to face with someone - because someday you may be, and your comments might be brought up.