Adults who work with young people are increasingly concerned about materials they are posting on websites like Facebook and MySpace.

Hundreds of college and high school students are posting pictures of themselves drunk, vomiting and urinating, often half-dressed or naked in settings like toilet stalls. Some of them include their complete names and the names of their schools.

"They're not a thoughtful bunch, by and large," said Robert Carothers, president of the University of Rhode Island and a former member of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse.

He and others point out that potential employers can view at these postings, which often last for years on web searches. Carothers says that he has told students, "Look, these pictures are evidence you're doing something illegal."

However, many on Facebook have the attitude of the anonymous poster who wrote, "It's just something fun. You need to be able to laugh at yourself sometimes."

College binge drinking remains a serious problem on most campuses. The Center on Alcohol and Substance Abuse reported this year that almost 40% of college students participate in binge drinking at least once a year.

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In July, a 17-year-old boy from Denmark died after drinking so much at the Sunny Beach resort that he choked on his vomit. The death has sparked lively debate in many European countries about tours that are organized mainly as binge-drinking trips.

"On the tour operators' websites, Sunny Beach is described as the place 'where you drink until you pass out'. They boast of their pub crawls, 'where we jump between bars and discotheques at 300km an hour to show you how to party in the sun.'"

Though Swedish tour operators have decided to stop offering pub-crawls on their trips and people must now be at least 18-years-old to buy a charter trip, operators in other countries are resisting pressure to change. Read more News24.com. Learn more about the dangers of binge drinking and teen alcohol abuse at DrugRehabTreatment.com.

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