The Death of Internet Anonymity

Your paranoia is tiring. Make your Facebook page private if you're concerned about the boogeyman finding you..

FYI: My outlook is that I just can't be bothered to care about this even one teeny tiny bit. I don't know, or care, if that is conventional or unconventional.

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Originally Posted by Fe 26

Well, ideally, if I go for a job interview, they judge me based on my resume, references, and how I act at the interview.

Not because they dug through my facebook and found out:

I might be gay because I have a lot of gay friends
I might be a roundy asshole because there are pictures of me at metal concerts
I might be into some weird shit because I know weird people.
I might be on drugs because I know people who do drugs.

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I might have a beard.
I might stutter during an interview
I might have forgotten to iron my shirt

Blah blah blah it's all dumb shit that people use in an interview to decide that they might actually like you, because that's their job, to both consider your qualifications and the way you carry yourself. It's all the same except now it's the person you appear to be on the internet along with the person you decide to show up to the interview as. Who cares.

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Originally Posted by FirstBlood

Who cares.

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Buttcheeks sure does.

Fat people do go to metal concerts.

If accounts girl used to be a man I'd have still hired her if she was qualified. If that makes me a bigot, you're a fucking idiot. My whole point was that I, a 30 year old (not a pre-20 who doesn't understand privacy) don't give a fuck about what anyone does at home or out with friends or online if you can get the fucking job done. And neither should anybody else. And it's becoming obvious, in practice, that not many people do. I walk the walk.

BUT WHAT IF THIS AND THAT HUH DETOUR WHAT IF?

NOTHING WOULD CHANGE.

BRB checking customer service applicants twitter accounts to see who I like best.

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Originally Posted by Detour

My whole point was that I, a 30 year old (not a pre-20 who doesn't understand privacy) don't give a fuck about what anyone does at home or out with friends or online if you can get the fucking job done. And neither should anybody else.

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So, why are you looking at those things? What social media data is position relevant? You think if they lied about something on their application, they wouldn't hide or lie about it on the internet, too?

No, it's not about lying on an application. You get a much better feel for what a person is like day to day, as opposed to the same person in Interview Robot mode. It's like a shortcut around the standard 3 month trial period.

Also, seeing how someone who is applying for a public facing customer service role interacts with the public online is kind of handy.

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Originally Posted by Josh

FYI: My outlook is that I just can't be bothered to care about this even one teeny tiny bit.

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that is really the thing. You don't want to care. You've already made your mind up. Nothing I say matters because you came into this thread knowing how you felt about the issue.