Whatever you do, make sure you show respect and honor for your leader.
Posted on 06/26/2011 8:55:38 AM PDT by Nachum
The Federal Trade Commission has approved a controversial firm which scours social media sites to check on job applicants. It means anything you've ever said in public on sites including Facebook, Twitter and even Craigslist could be seen by your would-be employer.[Snip]It raises the frightening prospect of any social media posting, even it's years old or was meant as a joke, being used in background checks. Applicants who use online pseudonyms aren't safe, either - the firm uses special software to link those nicknames with real, offline names known to employers.
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If you use fake names on your social networking sites, how would they know it’s you?
The list, ping
Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list
What if Anthony Weiner hacked my account?
Whatever you do, make sure you show respect and honor for your leader.
because many times people will also use their home email address as well.
Does little good to be “fatnotlazy” and have your contact email addy as “myrealname@bellsouth.com“
Oh, suppose if someone looked hard enough, they could find almost anyone’s ID. -If they had a reason to.
All of us here will be banned from a goobermint job.
(not that I want one)
too late. already happened to what I’ve typed more than once.
My email addresses don’t have my real name on them.
ooops did I say that?
It seems to be written to imply government involvement.
But this appears to be a private enterprise project that was not STOPPED by the FTC (which should not be regulating private enterprise anyway, IMO).
Am I correct in my second assertion?
If they tune in on FR they might learn swomething! They may even be posters themselves.
“All of us here will be banned from a goobermint job.
(not that I want one)”
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You don’t? Man, you’re passing up some really good benefits...nothing like what the rest of us get (if we get any benefits at all).
So, what is the technical mechanism used to link a FR name to a Long-form BC name? Can this be done without the cooperation of FR?
Yes, I was technically fired for a bulletin I had posted on MySpace over my “13 points against Obama” which I wrote shortly after the 2008 Election. The problem is that I wrote it, my profile was private, and although none of my co-workers were friends of my page, that “Bulletin” somehow made it to my workplace, where I was told I was a “risk” and that even if I reenlisted, I would not be permitted to stay at my workplace and would have to PCS out. I chose to separate from Active Duty and join the Reserve where I could be more politically active when not on duty, and wrote another bulletin that backed up everything I had written with facts. Two years later, just about everything I said has come to pass. But I got labeled a “racist” and a “hate-monger” because I didn’t drink the Obama kool-aid.
The biggest problem they had is that I named the bulleting as a sarcasm to the whole Rev Wright thing: “Rev Wright must be right, GD America” because I was pissed over 2008 results.
I never did get an answer has to who got the bulletin and brought it to the workplace even though I demanded to know. What little sources I have indicate that a poster for DU happened to work in the same Government Agency as me and might have had something to do with it, because portions of my bulletin got posted out there.
Oh well, it’s water under the bridge because I was right. I am proud of the fact that I went “Tea Party” prior to that being made a routine term.
Have ‘em send me a list, too, so I can put it on my resume!
If anyone has been dumb enough to give their correct names, information and pictures on the Internet, then who would want to hire people that dumb anyway?
It’s one thing to put a resume out there, it is another to put enough out there to get robbed of your bank accounts and livelihood.
If anyone has been dumb enough to give their correct names, information and pictures on the Internet, then who would want to hire people that dumb anyway?
It’s one thing to put a resume out there, it is another to put enough out there to get robbed of your bank accounts and livelihood.
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