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Luke Brekke 85 days ago.
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| February 21, 2012 at 11:11 pm #57595 | |
 Josie P. | So I’m in a class where the teacher seems to really not like self-censorship on line. What it means is things like, questioning what you post on Facebook, twitter, or youtube. Not being your true self and instead being this dimmed down version. I posted a vlog about it, if you would care to see that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir-QjNtJYrU&feature=g-u-u&context=G224f682FUAAAAAAAAAA But I thought it would be an interesting topic for you awesome people to converse about! So, my opinion is that you should censor yourself, or at least think before you post. What you put online can never go away, I don’t want to have to defend myself or take the consequences 10 years down the road when I’m trying to lead a career or something along those lines. But we are the generation growing up with this stuff, maybe the CEOs of our generation will understand that sometimes stupid things get posted and it doesn’t define the person. Thoughts? |
| February 21, 2012 at 11:36 pm #57607 | |
 Caroline | I agree with you one hundred percent, Josie. Since I’m a Senior in high school now, I’ve had to think a lot about applying to and getting into college, and I find myself thinking back to Facebook statuses that I posted Freshman year, because colleges do occasionally look at that stuff. Not to mention, sarcasm is impossible to truly convey through text alone, so you could say something and someone could take it completely the wrong way, and sometimes you can’t fix the repercussions. So I’m a hugh proponent of inter-self-censorship. |
| February 22, 2012 at 1:55 am #57672 | |
 Natalie | It’s now widely known that there are businesses that check facebook and twitter and also colleges and universities that do it too. It would be daft not to consider thinking twice about what you post online. Personally I don’t put a lot on-line, I also register different things under different e-mail addresses. So an employer searching may be able to find my facebook account (which has very heavy security settings anyway) and there, even if they could see it all they would see a few photos and the occasional status update, but they couldn’t find my twitter account or any other social network/forum account based upon the details they have been given because they are registered under a different e-mail account and not under my full name. I don’t think a whole lot about the future implications though in all honestly, I just don’t want everyone I know to know what I am doing and where I am doing it at every waking moment. |
| February 27, 2012 at 8:00 pm #60372 | |
 Lisa | I don’t really consider the future implications of the things that I post on the internet, but I don’t really think it’s anything overtly bad. The worst thing I can think of that I’ve done was, in seventh grade, basically making this site that was really invasive and focused on my crush of the time. Looking back, I feel really bad about all of the things I’d put on the site that were private to him — pretty sure I had his address and phone number on that thing, and I would be really pissed if someone put all of my personal shit on the internet. But I was in seventh grade, and I think that outside of the people it directly effected, no one really remembers it now. I would be really, really pissed if I was denied access to a school or denied a job because of that stupid thing I did when I was in seventh grade, and I think that would stand true for anything. There’s a picture of me drinking at a party on my Facebook, and that’s cause for denial into a college? Because I had a drink and someone took a picture of it? I don’t see how that’s related to my work ethnic, or how that ties into the person that I am. If every picture is me at a party, stripping down to my bloomers, then I see how that would be a problem… but even so, an outright denial would bother me, if the employer or college didn’t try to see who I was. The internet, no matter what you put on it, isn’t you, and even though it regularly influences decisions colleges and employers make…. I can’t really think of many situations where it would be cause to ignore the person in favor of what’s on the internet. |
| February 27, 2012 at 8:21 pm #60382 | |
| Luke Brekke | I think we should just self-censor ourselves (to a certain degree) in life, not just the internet. However, I’m perfectly fine with being the same person both online and offline |
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