Online Moderation
I often encounter some issue or another in which I would like to post, but then I realize that it might be misconstrued as saying something bad about me.
This reminds me of the myriads of articles I’ve seen which say that online information has been increasingly accessed by interviewers, trying to find some inside information on their employees. Thus, don’t post those random pictures of doing something to be looked down upon.
I think this is all silly. Understandably, some things nobody would like as a personality trait in an employee. But, aren’t we all human? Are we all perfectly ideal drones?
Of course, there is the thought mentioned by Steev that his having tattoos, piercings, etc only serves to help “weed-out” places that he, himself, would not want to work for. So, you’ll have that.
In my personal life, I am fairly reserved. I really don’t worry about details from my personal life being known on the internet (for example, you’ll never see pictures of me drinking from a keg on the internet, because it doesn’t happen), however I AM concerned that a future employer might think that libertarians are crazy folk, and thus not hire me, or one of my other views are out-of-sync with their company’s ideals.
Anyone else worried about this?
yes, yes I am worried about this. It’s tough to think that someone would say, “oh well I’m a republican and this person is a democrat and we just won’t get along well enough at the job for me to give her a chance.” while bipartisanship is hard, i don’t think it should be just as hard in everyday life as it is in Washington.
and i feel the same way about my faith – someone would look at some profile and say “ohh she’s just another CRAAAAZY christian. we don’t like those moral people bringing down the work day.” because while yes, MOST christians are absolutely ridiculous, I am not one of them. and I would hope that’s inherently obvious by just meeting me, but you never know. …a christian could have like … killed that potential employer’s cat when he was little.
so yes i know where you’re coming from.
ML
October 3, 2008 at 10:42 pm
Yeah, even though I do that, I’m still reserved about some things.
Steev
October 19, 2008 at 4:14 am