Comments on: What if someone sees this?

By: Kian Ann

Kian Ann — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:31:57 +0000

Your last sentence in the post says it all.

That’s how bloggers get into trouble sometimes. They don’t realise the power of the Internet.

By: Jared Young

Jared Young — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 03:02:03 +0000

By putting a public face on our personal lives we open ourselves up to everyone. I had a very similar experience with a real estate agent.

We hired a team of two agents to sell our house. They were young, but one was next in line to be the principal broker of a major office and they had a great track record.

About 2 weeks after our house was listed my wife found them on my space. One picture featured one of our agents urinating off a deck while drinking. Under that was an advertisement for our house.

Needless to say, we won’t be using them again. They were good agents and I don’t care what they do in their personal time, but to market my house next to pictures like that was just too much for us.

Anytime we make our private lives public we risk exposing ourselves… enough said.

By: Susan/Together We Flourish

Susan/Together We Flourish — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 21:33:49 +0000

Is it possible that social media will begin to transform how we behave as humans. Perhaps if we try to be better people online it will transfer into our everyday lives.

By: MLDina

MLDina — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:28:36 +0000

I think the case of the guy tweeting after midnight is a little extreme. Especially for designers who work crazy schedules, it’s up to their ability to freelance and get the job done. If he was tweeting and bashing clients, I could understand not wanting to work with him, but just because he’s up late doesn’t me he wakes up even later.

By: Charles A

Charles A — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:45:29 +0000

I think if they don’t take the time to learn about the social applications before they begin posting on them in ways that can harm their careers then they had it coming. it doesn’t hurt to go through all the settings and options of social media sites to see what things you can do with them before a person begins sharing intimate information they may one day want to delete. when i need to stay odd stuff on twitter i make the stream protected till i’m done. then delete them before opening it up again.

By: Stuart Preston, Chandler/Gilbert Business Coach

Stuart Preston, Chandler/Gilbert Business Coach — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:02:57 +0000

A parallel story to this one is the eroding expectation of privacy. There was a time my wife and I would cringe at the thought of posting pictures of our kids online. Now, with Facebook, we look forward to doing so. At every step, there is a way to break down the wall of privacy online and let the world in.

By: Toma Bonciu - SEO Services

Toma Bonciu - SEO Services — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:24:05 +0000

Hi Jim,

I’ve read the article of Mr. Seth when he publish it and this was just the talk I had with my wife.

You may be young and you go to parties and you record your wild nights and post it on YouTube. 5 years later you can’t get a job because of that.

And seems that this kind of things are happening more and more : employers Google their employees A few years ago was the other way around.

Google doesn’t forgets.

@TomaBonciu

By: David

David — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:09:29 +0000

Wow. This is just insane. What does posting on any site have to do with your job? Why be online if it can get you fired even if its not on a work related site.

By: Mick Dickinson

Mick Dickinson — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:38:34 +0000

I am using Twitter for work but part of Twitter’s success is that it is not too ‘worky’, and a lot of posts are personal, funny or have nothing to do with work. Si am I doing work when Tweeting or not?

By: Matt Mernagh

Matt Mernagh — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 05:16:12 +0000

a friend was fired via FaceBook. as in they found out when the manager posted the information on FB. not cool. all this can be managed via privacy options. something i need to consider. but it has made keeping track of my friends relationships that much better. lastly what about working unconventional work hours?