Vocal Voices

Not quite sure on which board to post this one - but it's a very salutary article from today's Guardian. It's a long read but it's about internet shaming, and how one stupid picture, post, or even remark, can cost you your job and pretty much effectively your future .....

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2 ... jon-ronson

Think many, many times before you post .... it is an absolute jungle out there.

How about not having to create Tumblrs and LinkedIn pages and WordPress blogs and Instagram accounts?

Why not simply not post stupid things about yourself in the fist place?

Why not turn the other cheek and ignore the berks posting crap against you, or fight back?

I didn't think twice about posting this, it is only a jungle if you want it to be.

If an infobot wants to take this and create another me will I care? No! I don't use the places it will do its work. Anybody in the real world who asks about it will get the response "What the 'king hell are you on about?".

Interesting Ossie. I do think young people in particular should be very careful about what they put on social media sites, as future employers can look at their profiles My BIL the policeman has to be extremely careful, and I know of at least one person who worked at a doughnut shaped building not far from here who lost their job after posting on Facebook

I've never been worried about anything I've posted anywhere.
Yes there are things on closed boards here (and elsewhere) that I'd rather weren't publicly available, but that's a different issue altogether.
Nothing I've ever been ashamed about, I'm always me and would hope 'me' is acceptable, whoever's reading.

Anyone whose posts anywhere are not generally acceptable should probably be questioning whether they have some kind of problem.

But on that note, I'd hope that an 18-year-old's drunken selfie or random rude comment would not be held against them for anything; if in employment, then so long as they turn up on time, sober, and do their job, their free time should be their own to be 18

If, on the other hand, that 18-year-old spends their free time posting racist rants or 'muslims rule the world and everyone else must die' diatribes, they should realise not every prospective employer is going to be willing to offer them a job