This article picks up one something we’ve covered here at the blog before–which is that social networking sites are fun and useful, but they can be injurious to your internet reputation.

There are many reasons one might not want certain photos or comments about their behavior to be made public information, but one of the most important is for your career. If you go to look for a job, certain companies actually go out and search the Internet for information about you. This includes the aforementioned social sites.

Facebook and Myspace can be horrible for your future as a professor, public official, student, warehouse worker, etc–because it has been proven, through surveys of employers, that your online reputation has a great deal to do with whether you are hired or not.

http://www.theeasttexan.com/above-the-law-social-sites-contain-hidden-dangers-1.1263872