As if College of DuPage hasn’t been in the news enough the past few weeks, COD Snaps is one more thing to get people talking about our school.

COD Snaps has taken a turn for the worst and became a place where students started to post pictures and videos of themselves or others doing illegal activities such as drugs as well as drinking and posting nude photos.

First of all, why anyone thinks it is a good idea to post such immature behavior is beyond me. Once you put something on social media, it never really goes away. Just because it is Snapchat doesn’t mean that your actions are erased forever. The things you post on social media can follow you around for the rest of your life and can prevent you from getting jobs. Students need to realize that does happen.

If a company or employer wants to, they can and will dig up anything you have posted on the Internet and they can use it against you. Was smoking that blunt, taking those shots or that picture of your breasts, butt or any other part of your body really worth it?

Imagine you went on an interview for your dream job, you nailed it and then you come to find out that you didn’t get hired because of some childish lark you just had to post on the internet for everyone to see. Is that worth it? Every time you post something, ask yourself, is it worth it?

Along with this behavior came a lot of cyberbullying. Watching these snaps I saw a lot of people get verbally attacked for their behavior. Now, I want to make it very clear that in no way do I support cyber bullying what-so-ever. But at this day and age, we all know what cyber bullying is. We know what provokes it. We know people always have something to say.

With that being said, most of the people on COD Snaps are over 18, meaning they are adults. As adults we know the difference between right and wrong and we certainly know what type of behavior will cause people to have something to say. If you were someone who did get attacked for something posted on COD snaps, you should have expected that.

Again, I will reiterate that I do not support cyberbullying, but we are old enough now that we should know people are going to say rude remarks if we act a certain way. If you don’t want people to make fun of you, don’t post pictures of your boobs on the internet. It is that simple. This kind of behavior is like poking a wild beast. If you don’t want the beast to attack you don’t poke it.

As adults we are responsible for our own actions, or at least we should be. I am certainly not condoning either of this behavior, but if you are going to do something foolish, you should expect consequences for your actions.

Next weekend when you are at a party with your friends, please don’t feel compelled to send it to COD Snaps. I don’t want to see your breasts, blunts or butts.