Advice from Obama: Don’t put stupid things on Facebook
October 2, 2009 by Sam NarisiPosted in: HR Tech, In this week's e-newsletter - Tech, Latest News & Views
President Obama recently gave schoolchildren some advice that many employees and job-seekers could use: Watch what you post online.
While Obama was speaking to students at Wakefield High School in Arlington, VA, a 9th-grader asked him for some tips on how to become president.
“First of all,” he answered, “I want everybody here to be careful about what you post on Facebook,” because “it will be pulled up again later somewhere in your life.”
There are a lot of job candidates who probably wish they’d followed similar advice. According to a recent CareerBuilder survey, 35% of managers say they’ve turned down someone for a job because of what they found on social networking Web sites.
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October 6th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
This has a lot to say about the decline in “common sense” Ireally don’t think people have any -
any more. It used to be one of the lessons your parents taught you. Don’t say something you don’t mean – you can’t take it back!!!! Now the President of the United States has to send this messaage to people of all ages!! I’ve seen this coming for a quite a while now – possibly one of the reasons is people just don’t care – not about other people and “if you don’t like what I do or say — too bad!!” attitude. If adults haven’t learned common sense you can’t expect the children to know – do you.
A very wise older woman told me as a child “if you have a friend – keep him so – let him not your
secrets know – for if your friend becomes your foe the whole world your secrets will know”
Obviously it impressed me
October 7th, 2009 at 9:24 am
The perceived anonymity of the Internet has loosened the inhibitions of people. They make statements online that they would never make in “Real Life”. The kinds of things that were only said on a drunken spree in the past are now spouted with abandon.
October 14th, 2009 at 8:32 am
Now I know why President Obama received the Nobel Peace Award