Careful With Those Sex Pics
Before you put those pictures of you and your partner engaged in sexual deviancy, you may want to think hard about sharing your hard-on with the Web.
A study done by Harris Interactive revealed that one in four hiring managers use the Internet to search for job candidates before hiring them. So, that picture of you drunk and passed out in the gutter outside Red Roof Inn that seemed so innocently placed on MySpace may come back to bite you in the behind.
One in three hiring managers said they found, by doing a simple Google search, applicants had lied about their qualifications on their resume. Another quarter said that their prospective employees had posted pictures that linked them to illegal activity. Unfortunately, only about 10% found provocative pictures of candidates.
Furthermore, and mildly depressing, was the finding that 64% of hiring managers who used social networking sites to screen employees decided not to hire those who they found on Facebook or MySpace. In addition, half of the managers did not offer employment to those who they found through traditional searches.
A Facebook representative claims that the social networking site protects its members and allows members to protect themselves even to the point that only their friends could find them if authorized to see each other’s profiles.
I know one thing, I definitely won’t be posting this picture on Facebook. That would just be silly of me.
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