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Originally Posted by Lateralus
I have a friend who got turned down for a teaching job. She eventually found out that the reason behind her failure was the fact that the school principal actually looked her up on MySpace and her profile picture was an unflattering drunken image of her dressed as a pirate and gulping down a jug of beer. The reality is that there are A LOT of employers who now look people up on social networking sites in order to 'investigate' them! Also... look at the amount of people in the public eye who have been caught out with pictures of them doing something naughty which were found on a social networking site or something.
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the simple way to avoid this situation is to treat anything you post on the net as if it was on a public billboard. too many people treat the internet like their personal digital playground, and while it may have started that way for some it sure as hell isn't that way anymore.