Once again the Internet has proven to be a formidable foe to a chosen band of fools.

In this case, Deering High School's baseball team.

Haven't we been over all of this before? As we point out in today's story, Maine has developed its own recent history of shenanigans caught online.

It didn't start with beer blast (allegedly) at a baseball coach's house, and it likely won't stop there either.

You may recall it was around this time last year we had a similar blow up with the University of Maine softball squad. Back then I asked why people can't stop putting their shame online.

Isn't it like asking to be caught?

Maybe we should consider a few common factors these incidents share:

- Booze

- Gadgets capable of taking photos

- People between the ages of 16 - 33

- Active members of social networks

So, what can we deduce here? Are photos of drunken hijinks a new social currency? Is the advance of technology to blame? Do these people have no shame? Do they just not care? Are they just morons?

Many of us - and I'll include myself here - probably have a cache of party pictures that we would rather not be made public, and most likely took steps to not make those public. For the sake of my job (I won't make any claims to a "good reputation") and any future jobs or aspirations, doesn't it make sense to keep these things off the Internets?

We may be facing a new digital age where social media, self-celebrity and identity are going to collide in a spectacular crash - some may argue they already have.

But as commenter Jonathan pointed out when we tackled the subject last fall:

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