Well, today, she has this to say about Facebook:
I’ll be closing my Facebook account permanently soon. I hardly ever use the ‘social network’ anymore...
So far so good. It makes perfect sense to stop using things that you don't use. Think of all the effort she will save by continuing to not use something she still won't be using.
...and because I will be searching for a job in the ensuing months I don’t want anything to pop up in my timeline that would embarrass me.
I suppose it is too late for her to NOT DO those things that would embarrass her. The point of moral living is so that you don't have to cover up your past embarrassing history because you won't have one.
This also questions the morality of concealing specifically those things about your past behavior that would tell future employers just what kind of a person you really are. Is it moral to permit them to swallow that risk without any warning? Not that it matters to you if you grew up without practicing virtue.
On an aside, despite the horror stories of people losing jobs because of facebook entries, the reality is that that hardly ever happens. Most facebooks are too painfully boring for any serious HR department to bother with. They will almost always check the facebooks of hot white girls (for personal reasons). They don't care if they see pictures of you getting wasted with your friends. Unless you are applying for a job as a nun, employers already know that you are not going to stop being young and foolish just because you now work for them. They still frown on criminal behavior, but criminal background checks are more useful to find that information. Businesses that care about drug use, don't ask you about it. They make you prove it.
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I'm beginning to wonder if social networking distorts our sense of consequences. It seems like we assume that if we delete our digital evidence of debauchery and misbehavior, it magically didn't happen. At any rate, it's best just to behave yourself instead of worrying about evidence of your misbehavior.
Precisely. Of couse those kinds of people are called "Betas" and most women don't have any onterest in them.
The truely fun ones are the public figures who believe that their public activities should be kept private. Everyone who commits adultery is inviting at least one witness into the crime scene. They cannot then whine about how that person failed to keep it a secret. What? Was fidelity among cheaters a pre-requisite?
Or cheating politicians who hold a press conference to ask that their privacy be respected.
If you do bad things in public, you should expect it to influence your reputation. It is just not reasonable to expect to get away with it without any consequences.
On pain of sounding hopelessly naive, unless I am sharing my facebook wall with people outside my friends list, isn't accessing it a non-trivial exercise, not to mention illegal? Sarah Palin's hacker was prosecuted in federal court, after all, and I doubt the standard HR weenie would risk jail to hack facebook.
I have no idea. I already limit my internet experience to fictional instances of myself and have since the internet was invented.
I have found only two data points on the net about the real me.
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