Posted on 09/09/2009 2:43:54 PM PDT by nickcarraway
President Barack Obama warned American teenagers on Tuesday of the dangers of putting too much personal information on Internet social networking sites, saying it could come back to haunt them in later life.
The presidential words of advice follow recent studies that suggest U.S. employers are increasingly turning to sites such Facebook and News Corp's MySpace to conduct background checks on job applicants.
Taking part in a question-and-answer session with a group of 14- and 15-year-old school students, Obama was asked by one pupil for some advice on becoming U.S. president.
"Well, let me give you some very practical tips. First of all, I want everybody here to be careful about what you post on Facebook, because in the YouTube age, whatever you do, it will be pulled up again later somewhere in your life," Obama said.
"And when you're young, you make mistakes and you do some stupid stuff. And I've been hearing a lot about young people who -- you know, they're posting stuff on Facebook, and then suddenly they go apply for a job and somebody has done a search."
Obama referred several times to "mistakes" he had made when he was at school but offered no specifics. He has previously admitted to drug use when he was younger.
A survey in June by careerbuilder.com found that 45 percent of employers used social network sites to research job candidates and that Facebook, which says it has 250 million users worldwide, was their site of choice.
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It didn’t hurt him much having a mom who posed nude leaving photos to fly all over the internet
huh?
You mean saying stuff like, 0bama sucks and abortion is wrong?
And love of country....Let me quote my friend Rev Wrong....God damn America.
Hey...you in the back row....I sure could use one of those fags....
And don’t post your BC or COLB on the Internet, either.
Obama’s mama posed nude. The photos have been around before the election and it never has been discussed by the media. Had that been anyone else it would have been all over the news.
Posed in a magazine. Let me just say: I disagree with President Obama as much as anyone else, but I think posting naked pictures of someone’s mother is way beneath contempt. I think it’s disgusting if some conservatives are doing that.
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