Wasting Your Time On The Internet
Mar0
But few of those “crazy kids” appear to understand that once something is posted it can be easily made public, 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 could have copied it, scanned it, or forwarded it to eight hundred of his nearest and dearest. What folk also don’t appear to believe about is that any one can pretty simply gain access to anything you have posted, whether it’s a Facebook login page or a fast and nasty comeback on a Nerds combine forum.
I once posted a reply to someone on a web knitting forum, and dang if some 2 years on, that stupid comment doesn’t surface each single time I Google my name ( which, because I am a freelance writer, is typically hey, I have to find out if anybody is reading my stuff ). Fortunately , it appeared to be a tame comment. I didn’t insult the other poster’s purling style or let her know to go unravel herself, but what if I had? No large deal, right? Perhaps it is. SmartMoney mag lately interviewed Jeanine DeBacker, an attorney who counsels companies, about how often they are taking a look at personal website pages like MySpace or Facebook when considering new employees.
DeBacker cautions corporations to be careful when looking online, saying that if an employer uncovers something about a possible employee that exposes she is in a so-called “protected class,” i.e. A gay person, that the information cannot be used against the candidate.