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MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (BURRISS)  --  How many of you remember the myriad of stories you heard as children about the self-made millionaire? Or the stories of Horatio Alger, or later, Tom Swift? Today these morality tales generate a lot of “ho-hums” and eye-ball rolling. But here’s one that got my attention, and prompted me to do a little more research to see what the fuss is all about. It’s a free phone app called “Instagram.”

 Instagram allows users to manipulate and share pictures they take with their smart phones. By applying various color and shape filters, users can create a wide-range of images that can then be posted and retrieved.

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (WMOT) --  There’s an old, old saying that you can run but you can’t hide. And a corollary for the Internet age is that you shouldn’t post anything anywhere that you wouldn’t want you grandmother to see.

So here’s the issue: Facebook is about to make it a whole lot easier for anyone in the world, and that includes your grandmother and potential employer, to find those old photographs of you falling down drunk. One side of the argument says Facebook should be more respectful of our privacy. The other side says you posted the pictures, you deal with the consequences.