Comments on: The Young Professional Facebook Paradox http://www.electronicretailerblog.com/just-for-fun/the-young-professional-facebook-paradox/ A place for interaction and debate on today's multichannel marketing and advertising issues Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:23:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: John Stevens http://www.electronicretailerblog.com/just-for-fun/the-young-professional-facebook-paradox/#comment-958 John Stevens Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:18:53 +0000 http://www.electronicretailerblog.com/just-for-fun/the-young-professional-facebook-paradox/#comment-958 This certainly does beg the question: how much are our personal and professional worlds blurring? And, is that blurring inevitable given the same blur in media and human mobility. This certainly does beg the question: how much are our personal and professional worlds blurring? And, is that blurring inevitable given the same blur in media and human mobility.

]]> By: Natalie Brova http://www.electronicretailerblog.com/just-for-fun/the-young-professional-facebook-paradox/#comment-946 Natalie Brova Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:35:48 +0000 http://www.electronicretailerblog.com/just-for-fun/the-young-professional-facebook-paradox/#comment-946 Much like the author, I joined Facebook at a time when it was still an exclusive clique of .edu verified email addresses. When job-hunting began, I struggled with the "Will my employer view this?" dilemma... One very simple feature made it easy to decide: Privacy controls! This can remedy the entire situation. Your prospective employers can see that you have a Facebook account and are a web-savvy person, but they can't openly access the account's content. Altering settings to allow only friends or certain networks the ability to view your profile is easy to do, and keeps those frat party pics for selected-eyes-only. I don't think it's unwise on the party of employers to check this out, and agree that if you're not savvy enough or don't have commen sense enough to either make private or remove too-racy info, then maybe you don't deserve the job! I know at a previous company we didn't hire someone based on the questionable (and very dark) content of their Myspace page. Did it necessarily mean they were a bad person? Of course not. But does a first impression matter? Absolutely. Bottom line: Just privatize it! Much like the author, I joined Facebook at a time when it was still an exclusive clique of .edu verified email addresses. When job-hunting began, I struggled with the “Will my employer view this?” dilemma… One very simple feature made it easy to decide: Privacy controls! This can remedy the entire situation. Your prospective employers can see that you have a Facebook account and are a web-savvy person, but they can’t openly access the account’s content. Altering settings to allow only friends or certain networks the ability to view your profile is easy to do, and keeps those frat party pics for selected-eyes-only.

I don’t think it’s unwise on the party of employers to check this out, and agree that if you’re not savvy enough or don’t have commen sense enough to either make private or remove too-racy info, then maybe you don’t deserve the job! I know at a previous company we didn’t hire someone based on the questionable (and very dark) content of their Myspace page. Did it necessarily mean they were a bad person? Of course not. But does a first impression matter? Absolutely. Bottom line: Just privatize it!

]]> By: Patrick http://www.electronicretailerblog.com/just-for-fun/the-young-professional-facebook-paradox/#comment-931 Patrick Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:16:36 +0000 http://www.electronicretailerblog.com/just-for-fun/the-young-professional-facebook-paradox/#comment-931 http://jobs.aol.com/article/_a/83-percent-of-recruiters-look-for/20080617164309990003?ncid=AOLCOMMjobsDYNLprim0001&icid=100214839x1205370982x1200246084 http://jobs.aol.com/article/_a/83-percent-of-recruiters-look-for/20080617164309990003?ncid=AOLCOMMjobsDYNLprim0001&icid=100214839×1205370982x1200246084

]]> By: Maria Lattari http://www.electronicretailerblog.com/just-for-fun/the-young-professional-facebook-paradox/#comment-925 Maria Lattari Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:15:51 +0000 http://www.electronicretailerblog.com/just-for-fun/the-young-professional-facebook-paradox/#comment-925 Facebook is a generational idea that has flourished in a time of Reality TV, MTV, Spring Break and COLLEGE. This is the first media driven generation and it is no surprise that this form of communication would become popular. Each individual can have their own form of self expression and a tiny bit of celebrity. As far as employing these young people, a Facebook page will not indicate the true character of a person, the same way reality TV is not really real. So employers keep off the Facebook, leave that to the young peoople and let them have their moment of celebrity. As we all know as we get older, those moments are short-lived. Facebook is a generational idea that has flourished in a time of Reality TV, MTV, Spring Break and COLLEGE. This is the first media driven generation and it is no surprise that this form of communication would become popular. Each individual can have their own form of self expression and a tiny bit of celebrity. As far as employing these young people, a Facebook page will not indicate the true character of a person, the same way reality TV is not really real. So employers keep off the Facebook, leave that to the young peoople and let them have their moment of celebrity. As we all know as we get older, those moments are short-lived.

]]> By: Rick Petry http://www.electronicretailerblog.com/just-for-fun/the-young-professional-facebook-paradox/#comment-923 Rick Petry Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:52:03 +0000 http://www.electronicretailerblog.com/just-for-fun/the-young-professional-facebook-paradox/#comment-923 What I see evolving is LinkedIn as the "Facebook" for a person's professional side and MySpace and Facebook as the place for personal expression, just like a personal blog. Society's quest for political correctness threatens to sanitize us into a bunch of Dilbert-like drones. Does anybody really want that? What I see evolving is LinkedIn as the “Facebook” for a person’s professional side and MySpace and Facebook as the place for personal expression, just like a personal blog. Society’s quest for political correctness threatens to sanitize us into a bunch of Dilbert-like drones. Does anybody really want that?

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