The Information be Damned
I found this video amusing. Almost as good as the "boo creepy foot doctor" video. Just thought I would share.
I spend so many hours a day browsing around and occupying my time on the interweb. I like how we can all gather in various communities of like-minded and share things such as videos, artwork, writting, music. That's what the internet was made for, the sharing of information. But recently it's becoming ridiculous with the shear amount of information existing on the web.
My mother keeps telling me to be careful what I put online, whether it be pictures, personal information, or simply what I did over the weekend. Even going so far as to e-mail me articles that about it. Apparently, lots of young people are having a hard time getting jobs because of information they have on MySpace and such. When an employer is trying to decide who to hire, sometimes they'll look their prospective employees up online. Say one prospective has a fairly standard profile, and the other has "I like getting trashed on the weekends." in their profile. Who is that company going to hire?
I understand it's legal. I mean, you're putting this information on there most of the time. But I feel like this is total bullshit. One girl in the article said she called in sick to go surfing with her friends one day, and her boss discovered her myspace one day with pictures from her "sick day". She got in trouble. One company decided not to hire someone because her profile said "I like to have fun." and her sex as "yes please". So if you share with your friends on the internet anything your employer might find offensive, than you're in deep shit.
In the mean time, I took any reference of me doing anything illegal out from the public eye, mostly because I'm pretty sure my mother still checks up on me on the old myspace, though I'm no longer a teenager. Of course there's always going to be things my mother doesn't need to know.
What does everyone think about this whole concept of employers looking you up on myspace?
I spend so many hours a day browsing around and occupying my time on the interweb. I like how we can all gather in various communities of like-minded and share things such as videos, artwork, writting, music. That's what the internet was made for, the sharing of information. But recently it's becoming ridiculous with the shear amount of information existing on the web.
My mother keeps telling me to be careful what I put online, whether it be pictures, personal information, or simply what I did over the weekend. Even going so far as to e-mail me articles that about it. Apparently, lots of young people are having a hard time getting jobs because of information they have on MySpace and such. When an employer is trying to decide who to hire, sometimes they'll look their prospective employees up online. Say one prospective has a fairly standard profile, and the other has "I like getting trashed on the weekends." in their profile. Who is that company going to hire?
I understand it's legal. I mean, you're putting this information on there most of the time. But I feel like this is total bullshit. One girl in the article said she called in sick to go surfing with her friends one day, and her boss discovered her myspace one day with pictures from her "sick day". She got in trouble. One company decided not to hire someone because her profile said "I like to have fun." and her sex as "yes please". So if you share with your friends on the internet anything your employer might find offensive, than you're in deep shit.
In the mean time, I took any reference of me doing anything illegal out from the public eye, mostly because I'm pretty sure my mother still checks up on me on the old myspace, though I'm no longer a teenager. Of course there's always going to be things my mother doesn't need to know.
What does everyone think about this whole concept of employers looking you up on myspace?
