After discovering the page, her supervisor at the high school told her the photo was “unprofessional,” and the dean of Millersville University School of Education, where Snyder was enrolled, said she was promoting drinking in virtual view of her under-age students.
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The Web Means the End of Forgetting - NYTimes.com I read a lot of these stories. Might the pendulum not swing back the other way? It stands to reason that, if everyone has embarrassing background information online, and employers simply can’t hire people who have embarrassing background information online, employers are going to be sunk pretty quickly. Nobody wants all their secrets out, but likewise, few people understand the full implications of self-publishing when they start. And they’re starting younger. More secrets isn’t a good thing, but if employers understand that we’re all humans, with embarrassing human pasts, we’d all be better off. |
