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Of course, it's not just Facebook that offers Internet users the opportunity to dig their own graves. Plenty of social networking sites encourage this sort of behavior by giving users the illusion that they are merely interacting with friends, when in reality much of their behavior is viewable by any interested party. Google is another popular way of checking up on ex-girlfriends and job applicants, and can reveal its own share of secrets that folks would rather keep private. In fact, a 2005 survey of recruiters showed that three-quarters of them use online search engines to check up on applicants—and they're not afraid to dismiss someone when they find negative information.

google image search in destroying careers now and for the future! What to do!

― TOMBOT, Friday, 20 January 2006 13:53 (twenty years ago)

this came up in my campus paper yesterday!

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January 18, 2006 Edition Jan 20, 2006

Security cracks down on drug use
Kim Fassler - SENIOR EDITOR

"A campus-wide investigation into illegal drug use in early January resulted in three male sophomore students being asked to take time off ....

The investigation also involved, but was not limited to, inquiries on the Facebook.com, a popular Web site used by many students at Williams. According to student sources, the members of two Facebook groups in particular, “Puff, Puff, Pass” and “Phyllis Chandler Bong” were questioned about their extracurricular activities."

and my favorite quote:

"When asked about cocaine, none of those interviewed seemed surprised to hear that Williams students were using the drug. As one student explained, “Rich kids get bored.”"

― Maria (Maria), Friday, 20 January 2006 14:01 (twenty years ago)

I hate to say it, but it just seems like common sense to put only things you want as public knowledge on the internet. Don't write about illegal activities if you have any, don't use real names of other people, unless they say it is ok, and don't post compromising photos.

--a

― Allida Warn, Friday, 20 January 2006 14:11 (twenty years ago)

Yeah you'd think!

― TOMBOT, Friday, 20 January 2006 14:15 (twenty years ago)

A 21-year-old Virginia university student, a sociology major, recently cleaned up her Facebook profile -- including removing a picture of her pole-dancing in a cowgirl outfit at a sorority social.
"At the time, I thought it was a great idea," she says. "I mean, who has a picture of themselves swinging on a pole?"

She doesn't want to take any chances now that she's job hunting. "It's just really unprofessional," she says.

― Laura H. (laurah), Friday, 20 January 2006 15:51 (twenty years ago)

Unless you're hunting for a pole dancing job!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 20 January 2006 15:58 (twenty years ago)

Shouldn't recruiting firms be a little more at bat for their prospects than that Chicago one was? That seems completely retarded: the dude already admitted to a drunk-driving conviction, so obviously he was upfront about past issues, and had received a verbal offer from the company who wanted to hire him! What the hell business is it of the recruiting firm (note: NOT the hiring company) to then go ahead and chase a guy down on Google until they find out he was yelled at once in college for being drunk????????

Point of my post: that article seems a little tenuous and doesn't convince me I should give a shit about this issue. They're obviously using completely psycho examples to prove some kind of sky-is-falling point. Tom, please stop reading so much crap that doesn't make sense and call the florist.

― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Friday, 20 January 2006 16:13 (twenty years ago)

These articles remind me of those forwarded e-mails I get alerting me to the fact the internet has my phone number and address. Not only that, but one can even use my address to make a map! Even directions from the state prison to my doorstep!

So I guess "internet" is another word for those thousand-page, yellow-and-white paperback books that get dumped on my doorstep each year.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 20 January 2006 17:08 (twenty years ago)

Ha, I shared Laura's reaction at that ironic use of the word "professional." But I don't know how to fit that many syllables into Alanis's metrical scheme.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 20 January 2006 18:00 (twenty years ago)

I'm gonna resist the urge to start a usage thread about the opposite movements of "professional" and "class" in common speech.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 20 January 2006 18:02 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

At the end of this Nation blog post, someone from Facebook claims YES, you actually CAN leave it!

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion?pid=283731

(This after a scary NY Times story that says you'll still be there posthumously.)

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 20:52 (eighteen years ago)

morbs dont leave facebook nooooo!!

― sanskrit, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 21:30 (eighteen years ago)

Of course, it's not just Facebook that offers Internet users the opportunity to dig their own graves. Plenty of social networking sites encourage this sort of behavior by giving users the illusion that they are merely interacting with friends, when in reality much of their behavior is viewable by any interested party.

Totally inaccurate. Unless you select otherwise, Facebook profiles are not visible to the public.

― Steve Shasta, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 22:19 (eighteen years ago)

So Bill Gates deleted his Facebook profile after getting 3000 friend requests.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 23:36 (eighteen years ago)

three years pass...

Man what a piece of shit, glad FB exists even if to help put dudes like these in the pokey:

http://mobile.al.com/advbirm/pm_29179/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=Vg9O1o9r

― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 02:40 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

This is kind of an amazing thread title in retrospect, on several levels.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 June 2013 14:27 (thirteen years ago)

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