Facebook is bad for you -

[Auzgurl]

NETWORKING website Facebook seems a harmless way to swap gossip and pictures with mates. But it could cost you your job and blight your future.
Yesterday, we revealed how police chiefs have launched a probe into cops who allegedly used the site to brag about crashing cars. And many other users find postings about drunken hijinks or drug-taking come back to haunt them.

Here IT and law expert ANDREW CHARLESWORTH explains why people should be more careful online . . .


A NUMBER of cases recently teach us to err on the side of caution when using sites like Facebook – what you boast about online to your friends may cost you your job.

People don’t think about employers reading their Facebook pages and kids don’t think about their parents going online to check up on them. But an increasing number do.

Employers don’t want to take risks with employees. One way they can find out who they’re hiring is by checking their Facebook page. Recent research by an American university found 23 per cent of employers reviewed candidates’ profiles on social networking sites.



Decked ... ferry workers faced
sack after Facebook pics

It surprised me how many were using sites like Facebook to screen applicants.

Here, workers can now ask to see traditional job references under the Data Protection Act, so people might be reluctant to write the things they would have done years ago.

So employers go to the next best source – Facebook – to find out more. "


http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... 700350.ece

Is this an ethical thing to do..it seems like an invasion of privacy to me...

[mantra.]

The kids are very open about Facebook - giving their full names, schools they go to and workplace details and plenty of compromising photos. Maybe when enough of them get into trouble they'll go back to using nicks the way they do on MySpace or MSN?

[boxy]

Is this an ethical thing to do..it seems like an invasion of privacy to me...

Of course it's not an invasion of privacy. You put stuff on facebook with the intention of informing everyone who wants to read it, of your personal details. You want to shout this stuff out to the world, you've got to live with the consequences (good and bad).

[Aussie]

Is this an ethical thing to do..it seems like an invasion of privacy to me...

Of course it's not an invasion of privacy. You put stuff on facebook with the intention of informing everyone who wants to read it, of your personal details. You want to shout this stuff out to the world, you've got to live with the consequences (good and bad).

I can explain this Boxy. Auzgurl and Mantra have this idea that stuff you post on the www is all werry werry private, and no-one ought have the hide to refer to it...To them the www is all neatly sealed into air tight compartments from which nothing escapes elsewhere.

While I have some reservations about the way DT's privacy has been invaded, in the end, he has no-one to blame but himself for putting his private stuff on the www, a very public domain.

Same with Carly the Crocodile to make those comments even more PA relevant.

[mantra.]

You have a way with words Aussie that tell a story, but not always satisfactorily. Of course if you put personal information on the net, there's always someone who will find something useful or useless to do with it, but we're talking ethics here. If there's a discussion on one forum, and someone goes to a totally different forum and takes information out of context back to the first forum and throws it into the discussion to ignite it in a detrimental way - that isn't ethical.

[Aussie]

"Ethical."

Hummm. On the http://www................

You say 'this' here, and 'that' there, each on the www.

I pull you up on it.

You cry.

Tough.

[boxy]

Ewwwww.



Aussie, what you (and DT, and Jovial Monk) do is just creepy. Stalking people around multiple forums, cross-posting to info everywhere to score points or to intimidate. Everyone does it to some extent when they know someone well, but the levels you (and the others) take it to, and the way you seek out the information like some sort of internet detective make it pathological.

[TomB]

It's worse than creepy and that's why some places have closed the doors and shutters.

[Aussie]

Ewwwww.



Aussie, what you (and DT, and Jovial Monk) do is just creepy. Stalking people around multiple forums, cross-posting to info everywhere to score points or to intimidate. Everyone does it to some extent when they know someone well, but the levels you (and the others) take it to, and the way you seek out the information like some sort of internet detective make it pathological.

'Multiple forums?' "Seek out............"

"Moi?"

You hysterical wanker, as always.

I read two other Forums at which Mantra, Auzgurl and two others Post. I am entitled to do that, am I not? Or, as an Australian, am I only allowed to register at ONE Forum. If I am entitled to do that, I am also entitled to cross reference between Forums.

Boxy, not once did I ever note you as one to rail against the likes of Curve/aka Scorpion Tie, Evil Roy Burton/aka Obviousman as they regularly made references, stalking, according to you, re moi, across Forums.

Get fucked, Boxy.

This the www, not just PA........or even Scribbly, or even SSSF each of which I can access, and post at.

[Aussie]

It's worse than creepy and that's why some places have closed the doors and shutters.

.....and so it is suggested that this 'TomB' fraud is one of the ravikankifuckashanka Forum!