The Price of Freedom now includes: maintaining an online media collection of your drunk/nekkid self.
And somehow, this response:
Use of drugs or drinking and the posting of photographs deemed 'inappropriate' or 'provocative' were identified as the most popular reasons why employers eliminated a candidate after viewing their social networking profile.
...is more popular than "candidate can't spell/write at a 5th grade level." I'd like to maintain a list of the employers (and/or HR people) who have filtered their hiring by online content; this type of cultural disinfecion is itself a disease that needs controlling, and market forces are the best solution for this problem. |