Watch what you blog…
I was reading a physical copy of the Trib today while at work, and it seems that I am right about one thing:
Watch what you say online [l]. It really can come back to haunt you.
It does seem that things you say or do online may be noticed by potential employers, of which some have begun digging through search engines, MySpace profiles, and anything else that gives them information.
Information that YOU, dear users, are freely giving them.
What’s amusing is, The Wayback Machine never forgives (hint). You can’t always take it back, either. Somewhere out there, it’s in the cache of someone’s computer.
Perhaps this is why I keep blogging sensible things…? I’d recommend that, and a dose of moderation in what you post to MySpace, LiveJournal, etc etc. 
(This is why you almost never hear about my job. :))
[tags]Employment Tips, Big Brother[/tags]
I was talking to someone at school today that actively does this when he recruits.
He works in after-school programs with through the police department.
He talked about how he checked a potential employee’s myspace, and she had a picture of herself with a marijuana leaf T-shirt along with a friend with a shirt with a gang-related symbol on it.
When he asked her in the interview about gangs and drugs she siad she was adamantly opposed to them and had never had anything to do with them.
I’m guessing that equal employment opportunity commission doesn’t outlaw discrimination based on lying.
This type of screening is happening, so listen to Xial!
[...] However, while looking at my dashboard tonight, I saw that someone was linking to my local copy of a news article advising caution about what you’re posting to the internet. I saved a copy of the article locally, just in case that it disappeared from the Trib’s site, and it did. Now, while I do believe in a degree of separation between my online and offline life, as pointed out here, not everyone does. [...]
… you can pingback yourself.
That’s like going #ping localhost — why?