facebook is sooo IN that its even (as many of my fellow classmates have blogged about here) that its even in our own College of Law. But you really know its the big time when companies start pouring money into it.
WARNING!
Companies i.e. employers i.e. those that pay my salary have been participating for profit but what many of us do not seem to realize companies do spend time looking at your facebook account. Actually it isn't just facebook its the whole social networking site genre. 'igo-google ko boyfriend mo" --The internet is an excellent source for corporations acting as employers to get the low down on their future employees and future former employees.
Employers Look At Facebook, Too
Companies Turn To Online Profiles To See What Applicants Are Really Like
By Amy S Clark
Being tech savy and being part of the new wave of online public participation is really the new thing. Honestly do you really want to post everything? Your personality online as sir keeps reminding us is hardly private and Employers are taking advantage of that. It is so much cheaper to open a computer, connect online and google your name or check your social networking information from the email and name on your resume THAN hiring a detective agency and snoop around about you (suprised? big companies can have this done-- especially for key positions) Is it wrong? I don't think so. Personally as a former employer myself I would like to know what kind of people who would be working for me, the kind of personality they have, whether or not they party too hard and too often (will they be late for work...and will they be actually working not dozing?), do they do drugs (god!!!imagine the legal repurcussions of having a weed with more than two people in one room!-aggravated by party-life!), smoke (the clients may not like it). Admittively a lot of the stuff i'm mentioning fall well within the private sphere and your employer shouldnt really care about what you do on your private time. Still you got to admit my concerns are valid. Now I'm on the other side of the coin currently an employee, of course I'm concerned about what my boss thinks about me; what my future employers know about me. Without going into the debate of privacy online; when we go online and start posting stuff about yourself aren't you making it public?
2 comments:
bruno = paul dennis tangangco
lesson: never rant through internet sites, esp. facebook! :p
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