Some years ago, a young Maine woman who was a candidate for Rockland’s Seafood Festival queen got disqualified because of Facebook photos of her using marijuana. At the time, I wanted to offer local schools a presentation on the perils of social media. Everything a kid (or an adult) puts onto social media cannot be erased. Add tattoos to this.

It would be a timely for schools to teach the risks of posting stuff to the internet, and use Mr. Graham Platner (and many others) as an example.

There was once a rhyme about illicit affairs by married men, when communicating to a lover, “Say it in pearls, say it in mink, but for heaven’s sake, don’t say it in ink” — because it will come back to haunt the adulterer in divorce proceedings. Today? “Say it in pearls, say it in sweets, but for heaven’s sake, don’t say it in tweets.”

Larry Butler
Thomaston