Blog posting 8-Myspace
Last week I read an article about a mayor for a small town in Oregon who got fired because she had posted racy pictures of herself on myspace. The pictures were taken before she became mayor but many people in the town did not approve. I saw a piece about her on Dateline or 20/20 some weeks past. The town voted last week 142/139 to fire her as mayor.
She is not the first person to have problems with myspace. I have heard time and time again if you want to get a job watch out because potential employers will check to see if you have a blog, myspace, or facebook. If these websites show you drinking and partying you may have trouble finding a job.
If you want to have a myspace that's fine, I have one, now I don't have pictures of me drinking and partying but there is a way to fix it so no one can tell. Myspace lets a person set up their profile as private-if a person is not your friend they can only see one picture and some basic stats. So if a person can control their drinking pictures to only what their friends see they should be all right. You can also set up the profile without giving it their full name. I never give my full name for anything I sign up for.
I'm not telling people to go and do this but if a person feels the need to post all their scandalous pictures then make the profile private. I'm just tired of people being upset because so and so saw their profile and they got in trouble for it.
Back to the mayor, she said she didn't put the pictures up and that she has no clue how to use the site, still she should have known it may not look good after she became mayor to have picture of herself in her bathing suit.
Like I said before I have a myspace-I keep it hidden to only people I want to see it-very simple.
posted by Amy at 6:16 PM
3 Comments:
I read about the mayor who got fired as well. I operate under the assumption that anything I write or post online can wind up in the hands of a future employer, so I try to be pretty careful. But I'm in my mid-30's. A teenager on myspace or facebook probably can't think that far ahead. A mayor should have a little more sense though.
March 4, 2008 at 6:07 AM
I have a myspace and facebook account. I most definitly have my myspace account set to private, not because of drinking or crazy pics, but because of crazies. You just never know who is looking at your information. There is no need to display it openly and freely for all to see. For me these are handy networking sites to stay in touch with old friends. People should really be more careful.
March 5, 2008 at 2:44 PM
I think if you're going to be a major leader and in the public eye you should have enough smarts to make things the public shouldn't see private. Being a major with public "racy" pictures posted is usually not wise. I try to be conscious about what information I post now a days, as a teenager didn't think about that so much. Digital footprints are hard, if not impossible to make disappear!
March 6, 2008 at 6:55 PM
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