Wasting Your Time On The Internet
But few of those “crazy kids” seem to understand that once something is posted it can be easily revealed, and once online it can live forever. Even if that embarrassing photo of your nipple ring / kiss with a hottie stranger / lower back tattoo of Charles Manson is removed, someone else might have copied it, scanned it, or forwarded it to eight hundred of his nearest and dearest. What folks also don’t seem to think about is that any one can pretty easily gain access to anything you’ve posted, whether it’s a Facebook login page or a quick and unpleasant comeback on a Nerds unite forum.
I once posted an answer to someone on an internet knitting forum, and dang if some two years on, that stupid comment doesn’t surface each single time I Google my name ( which, because I am a freelance writer, is often hey, I need to discover if anybody is reading my things ). Fortunately , it appeared to be a tame comment. I didn’t insult the other poster’s purling style or tell her to go unravel herself, but what if I had? No big deal, right? Perhaps it is. SmartMoney magazine lately interviewed Jeanine DeBacker, an attorney who counsels companies, about how frequently they are looking at personal website pages like MySpace or Facebook when considering new workers.
DeBacker cautions firms to be careful when looking online, saying that if an employer discovers something about a possible worker that explains he is in a supposed “protected class,” i.e. A gay person, the information can’t be used against the applicant.
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