The Dangers Of Writing About Yourself
>> Wednesday, 3 February 2010
I have not joined any social networking sites and I choose to write on my blogs anonymously. Why? because you never know who is reading.
Imagine writing about a wild holiday you had in Thailand, posting pictures of the girls you picked up and the mushroom omelette you ate. You wrote about the fun time you had, the naughty things you did and made all of your "friends" jealous.
Fast forward a few years.
A member of the Human Resources department does a keyword search on your name on Google and various Social Networking Sites (SNS) and comes across your pictures. Needless to say you do not get an interview from that company.
Imagine that you connect with some of your co-workers on a SNS, you talk online with each other about how the manager is a jerk and you wish you could set fire to him. Your manager is sent a copy of this conversation and security are escorting you out of the building.
Imagine that you are chatting with some hot chick on the net. You start sending pictures back and forth and have a hot and steamy conversation. It turns out that it's a guy who loves to make fun of people who take the internet too seriously and they post the entire conversation, along with your pictures, on a website. Then your Manager finds it.
Please be careful with what you say on the internet. You aren't as anonymous as you'd like to think that you are. I personally stick with just e-mail to keep in contact with my friends, it's private and your company can't read it. And never say anything bad while using your company e-mail address!
