Symantec is urging Internet users to consider their "digital tattoo" -- the potentially embarrassing electronic trail of comments and postings that many people leave online in social forums, such as Facebook and YouTube.
"Personal photos or outrageous comments can have dire consequences – if future employers were to see them - if not kept in check," the company said in a press release.
Consider the young Aussie that told his employer he would miss work due to illness, yet posted on Facebook that he was "not going to work...still trashed...sickie woo!"
Then there was "Lindsay", a young woman who put up disparaging comments about her job and her boss, forgetting he was a "friend" on her Facebook page and could read all her musings.
Many Generation X's don't realise the potentially disastrous consequences of what they write online. The Symantec survey found that:
35 percent of under-25s don’t worry about what they post online 32 percent of under-25s admit they want to delete parts of their ‘digital tattoo’ 62 percent of under-25s put personal photographs on the web
So what's you digital tattoo? Do a quick Google search and find out....
-Susannah
Makes great sense ... google yoirself as suggested but also try pipl.com, zoominfo.com & wink.com. Check out your "previous".
Posted by: Warren Kemp Recruitment Matters International | September 30, 2009 at 23:46