“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," "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.”
This was the response US President Barack Obama gave to a High School student last Tuesday when he was asked for advice on how to become President.
Seemingly, Facebook and the Presidency have nothing to do with each other, but Obama does have a point. Anything published in the web is bound to stay in the web for as long as the web exists. People may try to take content out, but usually, this endeavor will not be fruitful.
Oftentimes, content uploaded to the internet will spread much quicker than a wildfire, needing only seconds to become uncontrollable. The implications of how one’s information circulated in the net will affect him in the future can only be left to the imagination. This is why everyone must be responsible.
According to an article published by Reuters, “(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… Some 35 percent of the employers surveyed said they had found content on the sites that had influenced them to reject a candidate. Examples included inappropriate photographs, information about the applicants' drinking or drug use, or bad mouthing of previous employers, co-workers or clients.”
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