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But few of those “crazy kids” appear to realize that once something is posted it can be simply revealed, and once online it can live forever. Even if that humiliating photograph of your nipple ring / kiss with a hottie stranger / lower back tattoo of Charles Manson is removed, someone else could have copied it, scanned it, or forwarded it to 800 of his nearest and dearest. What folks also don’t seem to believe about is that anyone can pretty easily get access to anything you’ve posted, whether it’s a Facebook login page or a quick and unpleasant comeback on a Nerds unite forum.
I once posted a reply to somebody on an online knitting forum, and dang if some two years later, that stupid comment doesn’t surface each single time I Google my name ( which, because I’m a freelance writer, is commonly hey, I need to find out if any one is reading my things ). Fortunately , it was a tame comment. I did not insult the other poster’s purling style or tell her to go unravel herself, but what if I had? No enormous deal, right? Perhaps it is. SmartMoney mag recently interviewed Jeanine DeBacker, a lawyer who counsels employers, about how often they are having a look at private website pages like MySpace or Facebook when considering new workers.
DeBacker cautions companies to be careful when looking online, asserting that if an employer discovers something about a prospective employee that reveals that he is in a supposed “protected class,” i.e. A gay person, that the info cannot be used against the applicant.
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