I was shown an article in the newspaper the other day that was pretty interesting. It talked about college grads applying for jobs in the workplace, and the employers researching them on Myspace. They interviewed the head of this company that was saying when they get applications, they look them up on Myspace. There was a guy that they looked up who's interests included smoking pot, shooting people and various described sex acts. Another woman had pictures of herself passed out after a long night of drinking. Needless to say, neither of them got the job.
Personally, I think this is a great idea. Too many people use things like Myspace not to express themselves, but express how they want to be seen.
Stop trying to look cool, stop trying to be something you're not, and if you really are like that, then don't be pround of it!
Friday, June 16, 2006
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I've always wondered why people find myspace to be such an appropriate place for things like that. I wonder if it has anything to do with the haphazard design idea of myspace. The place looks like a Chinese market, all unorganized and hectic, some pages well designed, some barely readable. I wonder if that just instills in people the idea that it's a wild west sort of place, and thusly, they act all lawless and crazy. Why they're surprised when people hold them accountable I'll never know.
Actually, it's kind of funny, Teresa basically caught someone in a lie, who said they were in one place, and then posted pictures of themselves drunk at a party on the same date. Funny how people don't see how that kind of stuff can come back and bite them in the a.
Yeah, it was (or maybe still is) the same on Livejournal. Everyone would talk crap about people, tell their deepest, darkest secrets, and then if they were confronted about it they were all upset. I mean, it's a journal, but a public journal, one that holds no secrets. People think they are immune to things just because they are able to do it; they feel they are not responsible for what they choose to say or portray about themselves.
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