Sunday, September 16, 2007
How to Avoid Getting Fired by Facebook
lifehack.org: "Everything is public. Act as though it is going to be on the front page of the New York Times tomorrow. Facebook just announced that in a matter of a few days or weeks, it will become indexed by the colossal Google search engine. People are now also able to search for listings from the welcome page without first signing up as a member. Welcome to the front page! Beware of what you air in places like Facebook, MySpace or Twitter that have become easily searchable, fairly permanent and highly public."
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This old argument has been given something of a twist with the new now that google indexes facebook. I'm not sure who decided that was a good idea, it's not like the members of the internet community are striving to be seen more. If you want to find someone on facebook, all you have to do is type in their name. If you want to stalk them, use google. The whole thing seems like a really bad idea to me. And sometimes you can't avoid having things about you on facebook. If you have a bad night (or good i guess, depending on how you look at it), and someone has a camera and a computer, then it isn't really up to you what gets posted. You can untag the pictures, but they're still not that hard to find...
This is the problem with having Facebook go public. Everyone who was on Facebook originally didn't want it to go public for this reason! Facebook has lost it's purpose of keeping friends together and being nothing more than a contact site. On a separate note, people shouldn't post anything that they don't want seen. However, because of the unique situation as mentioned by CF you simply cannot always control what is posted about you. Oh Facebook, why are you selling out as badly as myspace? Soon people will be able to change their backgrounds too... *barf*
I feel like I have heard this argument a zillion times. In a way, it does damper facebook now that we are adults looking to further our careers and need to always be on our guard, even on our social time. Then again, perhaps that's just the responsibility of being an adult. What gets me is that we can have all our privacy settings on and still information leaks out. Why take all the procautions if they really don't do much in the end? I love Facebook, but I feel that with each year I get older it's going to be more trouble than it's worth.
The internet is great because you can find anything. Facebook is just making it faster, easier, and free to find info about people. Unfortunately, no one can hide. All the privacy settings in the world do you no good when your friend leaves her facebook up in the library and a teacher walks by and sits down. This happened last year at my high school, and 11 people got hauled into the office and questioned about pictures and comments. They didn't get in trouble, because it was entirely out of school, but the school policy has now changed to allow punishment of this. The worst thing, as was mentioned in the first comment, is the pictures, because you might not even notice that someone is taking a picture until the flash goes off in your face. Even if you are not doing anything sketchy or illegal, if one person in that album is, you are assumed to also be doing so. And now that people (in my high school) who arent students are on, it can and does incriminate people for things they haven't even done.
Its amazing how so many people don’t realize that Facebook is a public site that EVERYONE can view. I know that my last employer used Facebook to research potential assistants. She told me there were three people she would have hired had she not looked at their Facebook account. To me this was a little much and somewhat an invasion of privacy. I think that Facebook represents your personal life, and your personal life should not affect your career. If you can work everyday as a professional and not let whatever you do at night affect your job what is the problem? Yet it is a representation of your personal life, so if you don’t want potential employers not to see it don’t put it on the web.
this is what life has come to. everything you want to be known to the world, WILL be known to the world, along with a whole bunch of stuff you don't want. I'm glad someone is putting out the warning call about this kind of thing. People, including myself, are very naive when it comes to the kind of people out there trying to seek out information, and naughty information, in order to harm, blackmail, or fire us. As actors and designers, so much of our hiring depends on how the world views us as people- and as much as we don't want to admit it, people do judge our artistic integrity based on our actions and statements. As such, it's much more important to us as artists to make sure we give the world the view of us that we want to give, and not reality. But a "selected" reality. good luck.
Online applications like facebook can be great, if you know how to use them. This has come up more and more, so often that you think we would have learned by now. But apparently not. If you are going to put personal information out there make sure you know what your doing. If anything happens because of it, your the only one to be blamed.
This is such an invasion of privacy. it was only 2 years ago facebook was secluded and only college students were able to get access. I feel like everyone has one now. My friends grandma even has one and she's 82!!!
I knew this would happen to facebook,.. replicate myspace. It's just a big new fad that everyone has to have one. Even worse to find out that your boss is creeping out your profile to uncover some dirt. Sick.
yay. internet communities. everyone loves them, and they're great, but really, if it's not worth the the job loosing. Really, google should not be accessible to look up people names on facebook. it's an integration of two applications and it's worrisome to have all of that information so accessible.
they say that you can untag photos and what it comes down to, is that those pictures were still there, and your name was still attached to it. i wonder if people could eventually just hack into the databases to get all of that information out there.
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