One of the things I've been fascinated and afraid of with social media is the privacy issue. It is SO easy to find some less-than-desirable information about people in the cloud, and not always within their control.
I find that some people over-share: about themselves, about their families, about their friends. And I can't help wondering how it affects their futures. I know at the college where I work, athletes in particular have been warned repeatedly about what they post on Facebook, and what their friends post about them on Facebook. NCAA rules = no underage drinking. If you go to a party and your friend takes a picture of you with a beer in hand, you could be booted from the team. One of my favorite lines from an Equifax newsletter, paraphrased: you should treat your posts on social media sites as if they were public, because increasingly, they are.
Two posts I read today discussed this issue: one from a prospective
employer's perspective, and the other as a
"netiquette" column about how not to be boneheaded on your friends' social media sites.
So tell me: do you "Google" prospective employees? Teenage daughters' boyfriends? The new neighbor?
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