Facebook and MySpace: Hate it or love it?

[724Skinsfan]

The one nice thing about MySpace is that a lot of really stupid people post a lot of really dumb "tell all" accounts of their weekend...like my 16 year old half sister who included my wife (yeah, she has a page) on as a friend. Unbeknownst to her, I read some of these accounts of parties and going someplace that's not where mom and dad think she is. Some of the stuff she wrote had my jaw dropping all the way down to the basement. So, I saved and printed the webpages for future use. The material I have could have her grounded for life + 20.

By the way, I guess I don't think she's stupid (straight A student), just making some incredibly stupid decisions.

Lesson #37, folks: Don't write anything down in cyberspace that someone can use against you.

[Sheriff Gonna Getcha]

Originally Posted by 724Skinsfan

Lesson #37, folks: Don't write anything down in cyberspace that someone can use against you.

Yup. The Wall Street Journal ran a story a few months ago about how employers are starting to run searches of young job candidates on myspace, facebook, etc. Apparently, a healthy minority of candidates are screened out of the hiring process based on their web pages.

[Monkeydad]

Originally Posted by 724Skinsfan

Lesson #37, folks: Don't write anything down in cyberspace that someone can use against you.

Ha...everytime we get a new employee or job candidate at work, I Google them. Even without logins to the kiddie sites, I find some interesting stuff.