Never removed, always findable, and forever there.
Facebook and myspace could stand between me and my dream job, if I am not cautious about what I allow to be posted on my pages.
I will be searching for a job in this disastrous economy in a little over a year, so I need every bit to be in my favor when I am looking. I literally cannot afford to have compromising pictures, and negative content online about me, because of the potential consequences it could have on my future.
I was shocked to realize that the content that is posted or published on the internet is never fully removed or private, because anything can be archived. The reading about the San Francisco Chronicle and how they tried to get rid of the Goth story online, opened my eyes, because it can still be found on an Italian gaming site.
I always thought that if something was printed then that is worse than it being online, but now I find myself racking through all my facebook pictures making sure they won’t be perceived negatively.
Nothing is safe, everything can be archived, and dreams can be crushed.
kchulick