1. What does your current digital footprint imply about you?
Everyone has a digital footprint, like it or not. That is why we should really think before we post or tweet something. When I googled myself, I found one link related to me (school newspaper). I feel like if a college admission officer looked me up, they would think that i'm more focused in doing school stuff then being on social media websites.
2. The picture below is what I want colleges, friends, parents and employers to see me as:
3. "College prospects are being watched on Facebook and Twitter"
Many kids out there hoping to become something big think that just having the talent is going to be good enough, but what they need to realize is that now their actions on social media websites might impact their future. Many coaches are now signing up to every popular social media so they can see how they really are when they “let their guard down”, like the Virginia coach, Mike London stated. You would think that it would be illegal for coaches to friend them or follow them but according to NCAA rules, they are allowed to do that. If some kids, that I know personally, read this article they would really think about what it is okay to post and what it is not. Teenagers post the dumbest things, just to impress their friends. What they don’t know is that they should really be careful because the people they are trying to impress will be forgotten later on their lives but being rejected to their dream school because of something “small” is always going to stay with them. Therefore, I do think that it is okay for colleges to check our social medias.
"37 Percent Of Employers Use Facebook To Pre-Screen Applicants, New Study Says"
New companies are checking social medias of their potential employers so they can research everything about them. The hiring managers that were part of that 37 percent said that they used the sites to see if “the person would be a good fit with the company's culture, and 45 percent wanted to learn more about the candidates' qualifications.” This is scary to me because these managers are just looking for reasons why they shouldn't hire you, if someone is qualified is for the job focus on that instead of what they post on their own personal time. At Bozeman, they even ask their applicants to give them their password to their social media accounts, that was too far in my opinion because we deserve some privacy as human beings. I believe that jobs and personal accounts shouldn't mix together, but everyone should be careful on what they post because it might cost them a job.
"This Is How A Woman’s Offensive Tweet Became The World’s Top Story"
Everyone should really be careful what they tweet something, look at Justine Sacco, PR director at InterActivecorp, for example. Before getting on her 11-hour flight to Cape Town, South Africa she tweeted “Going to Africa Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding. I’m white!”. Justine only had 200 followers when she tweeted, so it makes you wonder how it went viral. Well, first it was emailed to Sam Biddle, Valleywag editor, and after he post it, it suddenly started getting out of control. They were several emotions that people went through, confusion to anger. At first, many thought that maybe she had gotten hacked but after looking at some of her previous tweets, it was obvious she wasn't. It didn't take long before she got her own trend, that trended worldwide too (#HasJustineLandedYet), when she did land she deleted the tweet, twitter, Facebook, and instagram accounts without issuing an apology. Later, on Saturday she was fired from her job. I think it was stupid of her tweeting that because, you’re not supposed to joke about that and considering she was a PR you would expect her to be smarter on what she said. In my opinion, people only went overboard because she was a PR of a company, people tweet this kind of stuff all the time but they don’t get the attention she got. You should be careful on what you tweet, you never know what can happen.
Everyone has a digital footprint, like it or not. That is why we should really think before we post or tweet something. When I googled myself, I found one link related to me (school newspaper). I feel like if a college admission officer looked me up, they would think that i'm more focused in doing school stuff then being on social media websites.
2. The picture below is what I want colleges, friends, parents and employers to see me as:
3. "College prospects are being watched on Facebook and Twitter"
Many kids out there hoping to become something big think that just having the talent is going to be good enough, but what they need to realize is that now their actions on social media websites might impact their future. Many coaches are now signing up to every popular social media so they can see how they really are when they “let their guard down”, like the Virginia coach, Mike London stated. You would think that it would be illegal for coaches to friend them or follow them but according to NCAA rules, they are allowed to do that. If some kids, that I know personally, read this article they would really think about what it is okay to post and what it is not. Teenagers post the dumbest things, just to impress their friends. What they don’t know is that they should really be careful because the people they are trying to impress will be forgotten later on their lives but being rejected to their dream school because of something “small” is always going to stay with them. Therefore, I do think that it is okay for colleges to check our social medias.
"37 Percent Of Employers Use Facebook To Pre-Screen Applicants, New Study Says"
New companies are checking social medias of their potential employers so they can research everything about them. The hiring managers that were part of that 37 percent said that they used the sites to see if “the person would be a good fit with the company's culture, and 45 percent wanted to learn more about the candidates' qualifications.” This is scary to me because these managers are just looking for reasons why they shouldn't hire you, if someone is qualified is for the job focus on that instead of what they post on their own personal time. At Bozeman, they even ask their applicants to give them their password to their social media accounts, that was too far in my opinion because we deserve some privacy as human beings. I believe that jobs and personal accounts shouldn't mix together, but everyone should be careful on what they post because it might cost them a job.
"This Is How A Woman’s Offensive Tweet Became The World’s Top Story"
Everyone should really be careful what they tweet something, look at Justine Sacco, PR director at InterActivecorp, for example. Before getting on her 11-hour flight to Cape Town, South Africa she tweeted “Going to Africa Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding. I’m white!”. Justine only had 200 followers when she tweeted, so it makes you wonder how it went viral. Well, first it was emailed to Sam Biddle, Valleywag editor, and after he post it, it suddenly started getting out of control. They were several emotions that people went through, confusion to anger. At first, many thought that maybe she had gotten hacked but after looking at some of her previous tweets, it was obvious she wasn't. It didn't take long before she got her own trend, that trended worldwide too (#HasJustineLandedYet), when she did land she deleted the tweet, twitter, Facebook, and instagram accounts without issuing an apology. Later, on Saturday she was fired from her job. I think it was stupid of her tweeting that because, you’re not supposed to joke about that and considering she was a PR you would expect her to be smarter on what she said. In my opinion, people only went overboard because she was a PR of a company, people tweet this kind of stuff all the time but they don’t get the attention she got. You should be careful on what you tweet, you never know what can happen.