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- Niddik, on 11/24/2007, -3/+109How to Screw Up Your Future Using Social Websites:
"hi!!!!!11 my name is jane lee doe i live at 4148 n. ulta drive, freetown, oklahoma, usa. my phone number is 555-555-8230 and my social security number is 83 833 922!!1 i vandalized big ben on a trip to london one time and i eat babies!!11lol XD" - jtbandes, on 11/24/2007, -0/+75"Do you use social networking sites? Are you worried that online life may hit your career prospects? You can send us your experiences using the form below:
[Name]
[Email]
[Town/Country]
[Phone #]"
Um.... - futzy99, on 11/24/2007, -1/+62I've seen a few people with drug stuff on their pages. That would probably work as a deterrent.
- LiamIsOnFire, on 11/24/2007, -12/+54Seriously, what are people going to put on myspace that will convince employers to stay away from them?
"I rape dogs." or something?! - theholyraptor, on 04/07/2008, -3/+36At my university, we actually have teachers telling us, as well as memos and emails telling everyone to be careful what they put online. The sad thing is, all of these future 'leaders of America' are that stupid that they need someone to tell them that. Nude pictures? Pictures of you performing illegal acts? I've seen it all. Except dog raping. If you're stupid enough to put something in a public forum that is damaging to you, you deserve it.
- Toast1185, on 11/24/2007, -1/+31"Some 60% posted their date of birth, a quarter put their job title and almost one in 10 gave their home address."
How is this information damaging? Furthermore, isn't this information pretty available whether its on a social networking site or not?
You're looking for a specific birthday? Check birth records.
You're looking for someone with a specific job title? Check that companies directory.
You're looking for someone's address? Check a phone book
You're looking for stupid, vague articles that say nothing and imply everything? Check this article - xike, on 11/24/2007, -0/+28Yeah, Charles Wilson from Cambridge, UK: Good thing.
- DoTheEvolution, on 11/24/2007, -3/+28A lot of employers expect employees to maintain a company approved image at all times. Most companies' idea of an acceptable image isn't posting nearly nude photos of yourself on the Internet, making blog posts accusing the president of being a homosexual, and announcing to the world that you're "down with 420".
- estvir, on 11/24/2007, -4/+28Tattoos are acceptable? Since when?
- npsken, on 11/24/2007, -4/+25Actually, rule 1 is "Do not talk about /b/"
- Beatmiser, on 11/24/2007, -1/+18My real name is Beatmiser and I'm very sensitive about it.
- capiCrimm, on 11/24/2007, -4/+19sweet, free needles in those things.
- Zachariah, on 11/24/2007, -0/+15I fire my employees when I find out they don't correctly use "then" and "than" on their profiles and comments.
- Tenlow, on 11/24/2007, -0/+13he didnt say he knew how...
- bariswheel, on 11/24/2007, -1/+14Social websites don't screw up your future. It's what you do with social websites that might screw you. Just don't be a dumbass. If you don't know what that means, you probably deserve the shaming.
- czimmerman, on 11/24/2007, -0/+13With a user name of Corman420, I believe it was kind of expected, but that also points out another problem with kids: always ALWAYS have a "professional" e-mail address, and not like, for example "Corman420@gmail.com" but create one like "Corman.B.Smith@gmail.com" just for use on resumes and stuff like that. I had a friend who used "xrapeme" in their e-mail address, and they wondered why people never e-mailed them back...
- rnreekez, on 11/24/2007, -1/+13Screw your future employers. http://xkcd.com/137/
- Cymrubeats, on 11/24/2007, -3/+14I think it goes further than that. People so free and easy with personal information are highly unlikely to respect others personal information. Ergo security meltdown...just for a laugh.
- catalysis, on 11/24/2007, -1/+12Tats are still only acceptable in more liberal business environments. Once you get to a certain point in the corporate world, you become surrounded by people who really do nothing but work. They have never had a facebook profile, never had a tattoo, never drink, never really done anything but work and go to church. They judge anyone who does anything out of the mainstream as toxic to the work environment and will avoid hiring them.
- tuxidomasx, on 11/24/2007, -2/+12thats very Rumpelstiltskin-ish of you
- ozydingo, on 11/24/2007, -1/+9Watch what you publish about yourself? Gee, I've never heard or thought of that before...glad this was pointed out to me.
- inactive, on 11/24/2007, -2/+10If our job has to do with the Internet, that's not really a good thing.
- inactive, on 11/24/2007, -11/+18Internet 101:
Rule 1 - Don't put your real name out there idiots.
Boss wants to look me up? go for it... i don't have a single website with my name on it. - reddevil3, on 11/24/2007, -0/+7So many people put their full address and phone number on Facebook, myspace, etc. C'mon now people!
- shaun1018, on 11/24/2007, -0/+7How to insure the lives of your enemies suck.
1. Get myspace profile in their name
2. Add a bunch of skeezy stoner friends/ numerous drug references/ weird fetishes/anything else employers won't like.
3. Laugh evilly - SpykerSpeed, on 11/24/2007, -0/+7"By joining this anti-genocide group on facebook, I'm showing my future employers that they needn't worry about possible future genocidal tendencies from me."
- Speed, on 11/24/2007, -0/+6Right, so you judge who to hire based on what people do on their personal lives? What what makes you think you have the ***** right to determine what they do when they leave? Honestly, if a person is a hard worker, never misses time or anything, what's it to you if they go to the bar with friends every once in a while, or thinks pot should be lega;?
- CannedMango, on 11/24/2007, -15/+21This is just like tattoos all over again. People used to discriminate against tattoos because they were only worn by "degenerates"... but once enough people got them, suddenly they were acceptable. If everyone is spilling their dirt on Faceboox/MySpace then it'll be a level playing field again and no one will care.
- MScrip, on 11/24/2007, -1/+7So... YOU were smoking a joint and someone tagged you in a photo. 1. Don't let yourself get photographed doing something illegal. 2. Remove Tag.
- dhughes, on 11/24/2007, -0/+6 On the local news tonight a guy was interviewed after having police come to his house to question him, he was pretty rattled. The police saw on comments on Facebook where he made Columbine-like threats, the only problem was the profile was made up by someone who used his picture and his name. The police are now trying to track down whoever made the profile.
- RobotBuddha, on 11/24/2007, -0/+6I was about to paraphrase that. I don't understand why people seem so terrified of the workforce. You know, there is more than one job out there. And given the choice between a job where I have to continually hide what I do, draw the proverbial curtains closed when I get home, and pray that the boss didn't see that my couch was a color he hates or a job where I can actually be a real human being I know which I'd chose.
Humans only get a minuscule amount of time to enjoy their lives, and wasting it in a job that makes you miserable in the time when you're not even on the clock is something I find horrifying. Someone won't hire you for what you do, what you say, what you believe, your religion, the color or your skin, whatever. Find an employer who will, better yet start your own buisness and hire up all the folks who were tossed out by that other guy. Another ten years or so and anyone who did behave like that is going to be sending you high quality workers in droves. - DangerCollie, on 11/24/2007, -0/+5Baloney, scare media. Putting your personal information online has always been a bad idea. Other than that all that will happen is not much. We don't have the workers to spare in this country. We can't discard people because we don't like what they posted online. I saw the same thing happen in the 70's and 80's with people smoking pot. In the late 70's anyone smoking pot would never get a law enforcement job or security clearance jobs...if you kept that standard now, no one would qualify.
In one sense you're probably better off sticking with the social pack, because norms will conform to you over time. We can't afford to be that picky about our future work force.
Some of you aren't too bright but you're all we got. - HerrEisenheim, on 11/24/2007, -2/+7Employers' can still see them. Government employers' have access to all profiles. Normal employers need only send in a fax of the person's application and request a profile, so long as you have a decent reason. They'll accept just about anything though. You have to print out an NDA, sign it, and fax it back to them, and you don't get full access to the profile, just a PDF "snapshot" of whatever is live at the moment.
- pilot3033, on 11/24/2007, -0/+5or just a non-vulgar user name to begin with.
'xrapeme'...WTF? - VaporBro, on 11/24/2007, -2/+7Honestly my Facebook account has plenty of pictures with me smoking joints. Has never stopped me from getting a job with an employer. In fact I am straight up to employers about the fact that I am herbal friendly and that I partake of it when I am off of work. Why would I want to work somewhere that would treat me like a criminal for something that I believe to be very harmless?
I have a lovely wife, a good paying job, I smoke marijuana and I am very happy with where my life is headed. :)
Legalize it. - tuxidomasx, on 11/24/2007, -0/+5"1. Don't let yourself get photographed..."
only ninjas can do such things. i'm still in training - MonoDede, on 11/24/2007, -0/+5I envy you.
- jimrooney, on 11/24/2007, -0/+5Careful! This will go on your permanent record!
Wait... I get to write my own permanent record now?... cool.
(yeah, xkcd nails it) - mitrovarr, on 11/24/2007, -0/+5Meh, so many people do it they'll have to stop caring. It'll be like living with your girlfriend or boyfriend - it raised flags back in the victorian era, but now you're thought to be defective if you care about other people doing it, not if you do it yourself.
- SjRaptor, on 11/24/2007, -1/+6He worked for NASA as a robotics engineer...
- inactive, on 11/24/2007, -0/+4Charles White*
- MScrip, on 11/24/2007, -0/+4What about the phone book? Those are online too!
- pascal21, on 11/24/2007, -0/+4if millions of people are going to be screwed, then who the ***** are companies going to hire?
- tuxidomasx, on 11/24/2007, -2/+6but what do we do about other people putting your information out there?
the whole facebook photo-tagging system is a prime example. u dont log into facebook for a week, and suddenly theres a pic of you smokin a joint at a party that u werent even aware was up. with your name captioned right under the photo. even has a little flickr-like box to show people exactly who's who.
or what about pissing somebody off, and they blog about you and list your full name?
sometimes you just cant help your info being out there. - Corman420, on 11/24/2007, -2/+6I know 2 people who were actually told they were not giving a position because of "illegal" activities on thier myspace or whatever. Im not supid enough to put a picture of me smoking a joint on facebook, but, I did just say I smoke joints... Almost the same as putting it on myspace?
- whodathunk, on 11/24/2007, -0/+4Buck, is that you? How's Mrs Rogers doing?
- butlershouse, on 11/24/2007, -0/+4This particular news story came out 24 hrs after our Govt admitted that one of its departments had sent the personal records ( name/address/dob/bank accounts/national insurance numbers ) on unencrypted CDs through the post and lost them. The story smacks of spin and damage control attempting to mitigate the loss of data by a Govt that should have been smarter by suggesting that its own citizens do dumb things as well. Its hard to believe the BBC is unbiased when I see this sort of reporting.
- jgzman, on 11/24/2007, -1/+5I partly agree. Job interviewers and similar simply need to recall the kinds of things they did at that age.
- inactive, on 11/24/2007, -1/+4You speak on behalf of who?
The websites don't have to relinquish anything. - psykiv, on 11/24/2007, -0/+3So that picture of the keg stand was a bad idea? Crap :(
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