I read an article today about how many young people are temporarily shutting off access to their social media – access to their Facebook and MySpace profiles for example – when they start looking for a job so that potential hiring managers don’t find something about that person that perhaps puts the person in a bad light.
At first glance it seems like a good idea, limiting access to information that they have willingly put online about themselves so as to not get themselves into trouble.
At a second glance though, it makes you wonder why they’d bother putting stuff in the public domain in the first place if they felt it was going to cost them a job or make them look bad in a professional manner?
These days it isn’t hard to post stuff on the Net that you might later regret. Sometimes it’s more difficult to completely erase it with the snap of a finger though so it’s best to consider this before posting anything.
