I'll be curious to see how long I can keep up this pandering/networking thing. Maybe long enough to figure out what I'm doing here and why I care if anybody reads it.
I dunno, I'm going thru a not caring about politics phase, but still stuck to the 'puter most of the day, gotta entertain myself somehow. But yeah, you always want stuff you work hard on to be noticed, who doesn't? When the blogs first started out, it was easy to tell who would be the stars, Atrios, Kos, even the firebaggers, because they built up community, were able to organize, and were damn good writers. Steve at TLC was the closest of all the others on the blog, he actually had to quit the blog when he lost a job because of it. Someone checked him out online. That's why I've always had a -nym. People check those things these days!
In any case, as long as you wanna write, I'll read!
Fookin' puter checkers. Damn. Allthough I am sure that it is a whole new field in Human Resources. What a fun job - poking around on the Net looking for BS to skim up about potential hire-ees. Fun.
It sucks that it is done.
Could there be legislation that outlawed the practice of checking people out online before hiring, just like you cannot discriminate based on age (right - can't ask DOB but can ask what year you graduated HS) and race (sure, how many 'ethnic' sounding names are put on the top of the stack of resumes).
Anyhow, I have never heard anyone, anywhere, propose legislation like this. Can you legislate this kind of privacy? I do not see why not, but I wonder why no one wants to take this one on.
Instead they blame the poster. How though, can you fault a 25 year old for something that they posted online when they were 14?
I would have posted all kinds of regrettable crap online when I was fourteen. I just would have.
I am not the same person that I was at 14. I was not the same person at 18 that I was at 14 and I just do not think that we can hold this against these kids.
This will be the first real generation that has to deal with it.
Right now it is easy to blame the victim. It will not be so easy in 10-20 years when those victims become the decision makers. I think that this type of law will then be implemented.
Ha! Hiding behind your cute puppy! Coward!
ReplyDeleteDance, monkey boy, dance!
HA! I know, right?
ReplyDeleteI'll be curious to see how long I can keep up this pandering/networking thing. Maybe long enough to figure out what I'm doing here and why I care if anybody reads it.
Thoughts? 8)
I dunno, I'm going thru a not caring about politics phase, but still stuck to the 'puter most of the day, gotta entertain myself somehow. But yeah, you always want stuff you work hard on to be noticed, who doesn't? When the blogs first started out, it was easy to tell who would be the stars, Atrios, Kos, even the firebaggers, because they built up community, were able to organize, and were damn good writers. Steve at TLC was the closest of all the others on the blog, he actually had to quit the blog when he lost a job because of it. Someone checked him out online. That's why I've always had a -nym. People check those things these days!
ReplyDeleteIn any case, as long as you wanna write, I'll read!
Fookin' puter checkers. Damn. Allthough I am sure that it is a whole new field in Human Resources. What a fun job - poking around on the Net looking for BS to skim up about potential hire-ees. Fun.
ReplyDeleteIt sucks that it is done.
Could there be legislation that outlawed the practice of checking people out online before hiring, just like you cannot discriminate based on age (right - can't ask DOB but can ask what year you graduated HS) and race (sure, how many 'ethnic' sounding names are put on the top of the stack of resumes).
Anyhow, I have never heard anyone, anywhere, propose legislation like this. Can you legislate this kind of privacy? I do not see why not, but I wonder why no one wants to take this one on.
Instead they blame the poster. How though, can you fault a 25 year old for something that they posted online when they were 14?
I would have posted all kinds of regrettable crap online when I was fourteen. I just would have.
I am not the same person that I was at 14. I was not the same person at 18 that I was at 14 and I just do not think that we can hold this against these kids.
This will be the first real generation that has to deal with it.
Right now it is easy to blame the victim. It will not be so easy in 10-20 years when those victims become the decision makers. I think that this type of law will then be implemented.
I would have to think the danger in blogging or having an internet presence of any kind would be:
ReplyDelete1. Ripping on your employer online
2. Doing so while at your job, using company time and resources
I opt to do neither, which is why my responses are so late. Plus, even my secret "unmasked" identity is still a pseudonym, so I should be good.
Until I get paranoid enough to trash the whole thing like a house of cards and go back into seclusion.