Blog 2, August 31- Sept. 2

Last week we talked about what blogs are and the different content we can put in them, like pictures and videos. With all the different kinds of blogs their are from personal, to work to opinion blogs it makes me think how we ever lived with out them. Anybody can just post an opinion on the web when ever and what ever they want to say, and can reach thousands of people in a matter of minutes. I have always been skeptical about blogs and all other social networking sights like face book ( that's why I don't have one), because of privacy. I work as a waitress and have lots of business people come by after work or on their break, and have been fortunate enough to see and hear things that lots of people probably haven't. For example their is a guy that comes in and it is his job to find all the information he can on people the company might hire on the web. He looks at social networking sites like face book, and no it doesn't matter if you have everything set on private, he is able to see everything you post and all your pictures that you are tagged in, and he also reads all blog sites you might have. So if you have a personal blog, and their is stuff on it the company doesn't like, there goes your chance at that job.
Its also kind of creepy to me that someone can get to know you, with out actually meeting you face to face, all they have to do is read your face book. I can think of an example from just the other week, I was at the mall with a friend, and somebody taps my friend on the back and says "Hi Sam!", like he had known her forever. I looked over at her and Sam has this lost look on her face, because she had no idea who it was. He goes "its me Mike, from face book, I'm friends with Kelly", now Kelly is a friend of Sam's and this guy found Sam on face book through Kelly's friends. He even knew who I was, because of  pictures she had posted with me in them. He started talking to us about the traveling we have done ( Sam and I are traveling buddies), and he literally knew every single detail that happened on our trips, like he was with us, because of everything Sam had posted on Face Book.  Now it might just be me, but I think that is creepy.
I do realize though that companies are expecting you to have a website where all your work can be found, and they can get too know a little more about you. So the more I'm learning about social networking the more I realize how necessary it is to have something, just be careful what I put on the web.

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