Corps’ Facebook page open to comments

[CommunityEditor]

Within a few hours of Marine Corps Recruiting Command’s decision to allow Facebook users to post comments on the service’s official page, hundreds of “Oorahs” and other shout-outs already have appeared.

As of 4 p.m. on Monday, about two hours after the update was posted, 472 people had said they “like” the Corps’ idea. Another 140 had posted comments.

“I am proud to know a Marine,” one poster wrote. “I am also proud that I will be enlisting June of 2010 in the finest branch of our military. I can not wait ’til I can call myself a United States Marine!”

The Corps’ guidelines for Facebook posts are centered around respect. A breakdown of the new rules:

• Graphic, obscene, explicit or sexist comments are prohibited, as are abusive, hateful or slanderous comments.

• Comments that seem to encourage illegal activity are not allowed.

• Solicitations and advertisements also are prohibited.

The decision to open the site comes about a month after the Corps released a servicewide message prohibiting Marines from using work computers to access social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. However, the message did say that some Marines, including those in public affairs and recruiting command, can apply for an exemption.

At the time that message was released, the Corps’s official Facebook site had more than 75,000 fans. That number has since grown to nearly 93,000.


Article: http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2009/09/marine_facebook_092809w/

[THORSHAMMER69]

Is at just me or does this seem really stupid. What a dumb gimmick. Lets open an official USMC facebook page. Then lets make facebook off limits to all Marines. What a bunch of crap. Sounds to me like the Marine Corps Recruiting command is pulling a bait and switch on the younger generation. They are going to give the immpression of being hip and with the times when dealing with people outside the corps.

"Hey, how's it going nameless 18 year old? What do you think of the Marine Corps? Have you checked out our facebook page? Its sweet!"

Technology has finally given service members the ability to stay in touch with their loved ones while they are in theater and the Marine Corps shuts them out. And then in the same breath use said technology to try to recruit more men and women who can't use that technology. Just sad.

Here is an idea...get the damn reporters out of the war zone. That's what is causing OPSEC problems.

[SNJ785]

lol great post i totally agree with everything you said.

what a joke haha

[DataDevilDog]

Thorshammer69 -

Did you even READ what the original post said?? Never once did it say MARINES CANT HAVE FACEBOOKS. It said you cant ACCESS THEM from computers on the GOVERNMENT network. You can have all the Facebooks and Twitters and MySpaces you want (I know you have a MySpace, as well as an account on BodyBuilder.com.....) but you can't log into them from work becuase the computers are for official business only, much like the government vehicles that you arent allowed to take to McDonalds or the country club. Make sense?

I cant believe the Marine Corps Times actually quoted you on their page when all you did was make an assumption about what you THOUGHT the article meant (I believe you said something recently about what it means to ASSUME....).


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