More Warnings Against Oversharing on MySpace

Skapare writes "Your next prospective employer might be watching your MySpace page, according to a story at the New York Times. And if you think Facebook is more private, maybe not if that prospective employer has an intern from the same school checking up on you." From the article: "Students may not know when they have been passed up for an interview or a job offer because of something a recruiter saw on the Internet. But more than a dozen college career counselors said recruiters had been telling them since last fall about incidents in which students' online writing or photographs had raised serious questions about their judgment, eliminating them as job candidates."

Comments

Common Sense Serves the Intelligent Ones Only...

[Dark Coder]

We can pretty much assure that the average IQ of MySpace participants is far lower than the general population (for the other half, that is less than 100).

Only post what you are...willing to show to your neighbors.

Like a bulletin board stand next to your local neighorbood mailbox.

Re:It's as much the employer's loss here

[Confused]

Musings on MySpace don't have a strong correlation with how an employee composes himself.

Don't they really? if you spend 8 hours sleeping and 8 hours at the job per day, your employer will get your wonderful personality for 50% of your conscious time. That's probably more than your kids see you. There's a really good guess, that most of your self will come true and influence your behaviour at work sooner or later. As a crass example, if I'm running a call-center for the republican party, it wouldn't be such a good idea to hire people who profess on myspace a strong involvement with the communist party and the first church of Satan. I'd be better served by hiring people with details on myspace about their sunday school and latest abortion clinic bombings.