Social Media

First off, in my opinion I'd rather just send a letter or email. If we weren't talking then, facebook shouldn't be the reason we start in references to reconnecting. There could be anyone pretending to be someone I know or a family member that claims I missed them at the last reunion when he or she could just be a psychotic ex-lover of a family member or something. Secondly, I am not sure exactly what your response has to do with mine as you brought up a search engine. What I am saying is that it shouldn't be so important the way it is now. I mean if you were offered a job that paid more than you are making now, would you want your potential employment to be looked over due to social media? What if one of your friends decided to post up a picture of themselves joking around and smashing someone's face with cake (I used this since it also happens at weddings and such) and the employer decided 'well while you have an ok page, due to your friend's page you can't get hired.' OR What if you had a significant other and a co-worker posted up a picture of you taking a photo with a couple employees or something and gets upset with you? Or pretends to be someone else to try and catch you in cheating? There is also people giving away your information easily because well.. they can just search you and possibly find you if they randomly decide they don't like you? If they want revenge because they feel at some point you upstaged them or something...and the list goes on. These are the reasons I don't think things like this should be important. Did you know for facebook, if you like something there is a chance your picture and/or name could appear to some random person on another site because you liked that product?

I agree. I just think people are too into this how social media thing. My friend went for a job interview and one of the questions the employer asked was if he had a facebook. To use things like Myspace, Twitter, etc to determine if you should hire someone is a little much. Obviously, people relax when they aren't at work, well I hope they do, so a picture of them on vacation should be the employer's concern. A lot of my female friends use FB to spy on their boyfriends because they just have to check. Its really not that serious in my opinion.