Ok, I’m sure you already know about myspace.com, right? Well, yesterday I was home sick from work and spent sometime on myspace.com. It’s not something I have a lot of time for but apparently I’m the only one that doesn’t. Everyone I know is on myspace. I’ve had a site there for a while, but I don’t use it — it just points people back to sackrider.org. Anyway, yesterday I clicked the link to import my gmail contacts to myspace so I can find out who in my contacts has a myspace page. I was surprised…
Gmail automatically adds anyone that emails me, or that I email to my contacts. I have hundreds of contacts from spammers to co-workers to friends of my friends through mass joke emails. Anyway, there were a couple hundred of them that actually had myspace pages! I started going through them and I found many people from my contacts that I didn’t recognize. Several of my sisters friends who got in my contacts from some ‘reply to all’ most likely, had sites I blushed at. A few of my high school friends had sites I enjoyed browsing. But the most interesting site I found was for a recruiter that contacted me last year when I was looking for a job…
Jenny has a wild side! I don’t know Jenny other than the two emails she sent me over a year ago asking for my resume to fill a job she had in some other state. Today, however I feel I know her more than ever! She has long legs and likes to show them off, enjoys ‘having a good time’ and cannot seem to get her picture taken without a beer in one hand. Do people not understand that the internet is not private?
If you use your work email to setup your myspace account – people you work with WILL FIND YOUR PAGE! If you use your full last name – people you know at church, work, social clubs WILL FIND YOUR PAGE! You are posting to the PUBLIC INTERNET!!! Myspace and all sites like it are available to anyone with a browser. Perspective employers are now ‘googling’ applicants before they even get to an interview – do you really want their first impression of you to be “Zodiac, 115 lbs, Blond, loves to dance”???
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