An article on online journals, written by humorless cads....

[conuly]

Okay, the guy who misrepresented himself deserved to be caught at it - but they already weren't going to hire him. As for the rest, let's see. We have one guy who's very tech-y, and might "hang out in computer science". Or he might not, y'know. It's more than possible that he writes his journal for an audience, not for himself. There's one who kept a strictly personal journal, with no mention of her job - but she might change that!!!! And I might one day rent a billboard to tell the world that *insert name here* sucks and should be hanged at dawn. The author of this article might go out and shoot somebody. Reason, people, reason. And the liar, who wasn't going to get the job anyway.

Plus, I'm more than a bit concerned about those who were found on Google. I mean, "Shrill" probably gave her URL away herself, judging by the comment about "leaving your personal life out of interviews", but the rest? Names are rarely unique snowflakes. There are millions of people wandering around this world with my name. Unless the journal's author is giving away personal information like candy...

Comments

[mortaine.livejournal.com]

I sincerely hope that "Ivan Tribble" isn't on any search committees I apply to. Not because I think he'd diss me for my blogs, but because I don't want to be part of any university that is that uptight!

[conuly]

*nods*

Of course, that's the trouble with tribbles.

[ladytalon.livejournal.com]

My name on Google pulls up various pages by and about me, and one person who has a hyphenated last name so it's really not the same as me anyhow. And if I include my middle name, there's only hits that are me. Some names are rare enough to give an accurate search result. While there are probably and definitely have been other women with my name, they're not on the internet.

[rachelkachel]

*eyeroll* What a jerk. Yes, you should be careful what you say online - but that doesn't mean keeping a blog inherently makes you less worthy of a job.

There's an article on CNN about blogs too, did you see it? It wasn't very interesting (and they misunderstood a key mechanism of LJ) but it sort of relates.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/07/11/tell.all.blogs.ap/index.html

[codeman38.livejournal.com]

I was going to post something about having an uncommon name, but you beat me to it.

I don't even have my name posted on my web site itself, but because it's in the WHOIS info and because a few other people have linked to it with my real name, my site still turns up as the top result in searches for my name.

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

Dan got in a little bit of trouble because of his blog, but that was because of photos on it, and he wasnt told to remove them, just not post any until he was no longer working on that job site.

And then yesterday the Daily News did the thing about the guy who ran that NYPD Rant website and got canned.

[neurotica0.livejournal.com]

This?
"John Malloy, a 19-year-old student at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, has put a "friends lock" on his LiveJournal site so only people with a password he supplies can view it."

[amarafox.livejournal.com]

Googling my name turns up all sorts of interesting stuff.

If someone googles my name and goes 'OH NOES SOMEONE LINKED TO HER FRoM A FURRY SEARCH ENGINE!' I simply wouldn't want to work for them anyway.

I keep a separate LJ for my super personal stuff. Any other stuff is friends locked. Most of my unlocked stuff is pretty inane.

If someone looks at that and discriminates based on it, I say feh to them.

[leora.livejournal.com]

The uniqueness of my legal name cannot be questioned. Because it obviously has none. None at all. There was another person with my exact full, first, middle, and last name ~on my street~ when I was growing up. Now, it was a long street, but still. When I was about 2 or 3, my mother got a few phone calls from teens trying to get dates, because apparently the other person was around high school age.

I am a very special snowflake.

[deceptica]

Heh, wonder what a potential employer would think of the Google search results for my full name: the only results it wields are porn sites showing older women because my first name is a pretty common Dutch name and my last name is the Dutch world for "older". >_<

I'm pretty surprised though that I managed to keep my real name off the internet for four years already.

[rachelkachel]

Exactly.

[brownkitty.livejournal.com]

::shrugs:: My name got used for a character in a book. If that counts against me, it's too late to fix.

[mortaine.livejournal.com]

I sincerely hope that "Ivan Tribble" isn't on any search committees I apply to. Not because I think he'd diss me for my blogs, but because I don't want to be part of any university that is that uptight!

[conuly]

*nods*

Of course, that's the trouble with tribbles.

[ladytalon.livejournal.com]

My name on Google pulls up various pages by and about me, and one person who has a hyphenated last name so it's really not the same as me anyhow. And if I include my middle name, there's only hits that are me. Some names are rare enough to give an accurate search result. While there are probably and definitely have been other women with my name, they're not on the internet.

[rachelkachel]

*eyeroll* What a jerk. Yes, you should be careful what you say online - but that doesn't mean keeping a blog inherently makes you less worthy of a job.

There's an article on CNN about blogs too, did you see it? It wasn't very interesting (and they misunderstood a key mechanism of LJ) but it sort of relates.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/07/11/tell.all.blogs.ap/index.html

[codeman38.livejournal.com]

I was going to post something about having an uncommon name, but you beat me to it.

I don't even have my name posted on my web site itself, but because it's in the WHOIS info and because a few other people have linked to it with my real name, my site still turns up as the top result in searches for my name.

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

Dan got in a little bit of trouble because of his blog, but that was because of photos on it, and he wasnt told to remove them, just not post any until he was no longer working on that job site.

And then yesterday the Daily News did the thing about the guy who ran that NYPD Rant website and got canned.

[neurotica0.livejournal.com]

This?
"John Malloy, a 19-year-old student at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, has put a "friends lock" on his LiveJournal site so only people with a password he supplies can view it."

[amarafox.livejournal.com]

Googling my name turns up all sorts of interesting stuff.

If someone googles my name and goes 'OH NOES SOMEONE LINKED TO HER FRoM A FURRY SEARCH ENGINE!' I simply wouldn't want to work for them anyway.

I keep a separate LJ for my super personal stuff. Any other stuff is friends locked. Most of my unlocked stuff is pretty inane.

If someone looks at that and discriminates based on it, I say feh to them.

[leora.livejournal.com]

The uniqueness of my legal name cannot be questioned. Because it obviously has none. None at all. There was another person with my exact full, first, middle, and last name ~on my street~ when I was growing up. Now, it was a long street, but still. When I was about 2 or 3, my mother got a few phone calls from teens trying to get dates, because apparently the other person was around high school age.

I am a very special snowflake.

[deceptica]

Heh, wonder what a potential employer would think of the Google search results for my full name: the only results it wields are porn sites showing older women because my first name is a pretty common Dutch name and my last name is the Dutch world for "older". >_<

I'm pretty surprised though that I managed to keep my real name off the internet for four years already.

[rachelkachel]

Exactly.

[brownkitty.livejournal.com]

::shrugs:: My name got used for a character in a book. If that counts against me, it's too late to fix.