Everyone remembers Beasley’s pre-season shenanigans nearly a year ago. This week only brought more trouble and it sounds very familiar.
Beasley took a picture of his new tattoo and posed it to his twitter account. The problem? Beyond the fact that Beasley decided to get ‘Super Cool Beas” across his shoulders, there was a mysterious baggie on the table in the background that people called out as being marijuana.
Hey world, it’s just a bottle of 7 Up, a Comcast remote and some pot. Now you got Michael feeling down.
Before shutting down his twitter account and subsequently checking into rehab for depression Beasley made a few last posts:
Y do I feel like the whole world is against me!!!!!!! Back on my FTW!!!!! I can’t win for losin!!!!!!!!!!
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Feelin like it’s not worth livin!!!!!!! I’m done’ … ‘not feelin this at all!!!!!
This is just the latest example of the way people need to adapt to this new media. This past year we have seen a number of famous people, including athletes, shut down social media accounts after not properly policing what they are putting out there. The Chris Cooley penis incident also comes to mind unfortunately.
Being someone who has completed college in the facebook era, I know what it means to police what you are associating yourself with. If you are in, or have been in, a similar situation you know what I speak of. At the very least I bet most people reconsidered having their profiles public when graduation came around and you wanted to be taken seriously for a job. That picture of you with writing all over your face, passed out in your own mess might not be the best first impression.
This is even more important for someone in the public eye. Starting college in 2004, the same year thefacebook began it’s conquest of the social media world, people of my alumni class have had several years to adjust and learn how to control their image on facebook. I guess not everyone is so used to this phenomenon.
The past is the past for Beasley. Hopefully this actually saved him from a worse outcome. In fact I would bet that we will look back on this in the near future and the only lasting memory we will have is that friggin’ tattoo.
