Im intregued by the all fuss in the media at the moment about the fact that stuff we put on our facebook / Myspace etc might one day come back to haunt us.
Yes i accept that online data may well be stored forever and that postings about your teen drug experiements could technically be dragged up in an interview one day (geez, if that isnt a sign of an employer you dont want to work for and you dont run the heck out of there then you deserve what evers coming to you) - but is it not going to be the case that all other candidates have got some postings of regretable darker past incidents as well? and if they havent got postings of them - why not? are they SO dark that they dare not blog of them?
What i think is interesting is that the people who are creating these scare-mongering stories about past blogs coming back to haunt you might be thinking this from an old world perspective. They are likely to have grown up when "on-line" was something dave lee-travis would have said of his next competition guest, or where your mum kept your favourite brown nylon planet-of-the-apes pants. That was a carefree age when we didnt have to think about our past effecting our future. But today our future might actually depend on our past.
Kids growing up "on-line" today will be the people who will be making the rules of tomorrow - and i dont think they will be fussed by all the data overload nonsense
and so this makes me think a couple of things....
1. If potential employers are going to search our past, might it be wise for us to be writing stuff that actually bigs us up - what? lieing? telling fibs? - and if this is the case then what can an employer really trust about what he reads on us - in the end its all nonsense
2. lets start a data-jamming circle. If we all shared one random bit of information about ourselves, then mixed all the data and applied everyone names to all the data - we'd all appear the same and - in the end its all nonsense
3. If anyone was to search my email - they would clearly see that my orders for drugs have been processed, My money laundering scam has been approved and i now have passwords for some of the hardest porn sites. there is SO much "data" on me, but in the end - its all nonsense
I, for one, am looking forward to the funny funny day when my youngest daughter truly wishes she hadnt posted some of those awful pictures of her posing in the shopping precinct with a bunch of mates, camera held at arms length, pouting overly glossed lips and premark shopping bags in hand
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