What You Hide Does Not Stay Hidden!
The Impact of Facebook Sharing and Privacy on Employability
Flipbook by Brittany Prince-Cox!Photo: Emilio Labrador (Flickr)!
Facebook has become an online diary for many of its users; however, Facebook sharing becomes problematic when shared “private” information becomes subject to employersʼ scrutiny. !
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Source: Jeffry Rosen, “The Web Means the End of Forgetting,” New York Times.!Photo: Mpclemens (Flickr)!
“we are only beginning to understand the !costs of an age in which so much of what we say, and of what others say about us, goes into our permanent — and public — digital files.” !– Jeffry Rosen !
How weʼve presented ourselves online in the past is preserved, and this record is becoming larger and easier for strangers to retrieve and access without our knowledge.!
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“Companies are getting better at organizing and finding out about every
last bit of a userʼs social life…” !Photo: BLW Photography (Flickr)!
Source: Felix Gillette, “Snapchat and the Erasable Future of Social Media,” Buisnessweek.!
Source: Felix Gillette, “Snapchat and the Erasable Future of Social Media,” Buisnessweek.!
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“…whether it’s a party picture…”
“… or a preference for a certain kind of shoe.” !
Source: Felix Gillette, “Snapchat and the Erasable Future of Social Media,” Buisnessweek.!Photo: Kristin Kokkersvold (Flickr)!
- Felix Gillette !
Source: Donna Tam, “Facebook by the numbers: 1.06 billion monthly active users,” CNET. !Photo: Matthias Rhomburg (Flickr)!
Facebook, boasting over 1.06 billion active monthly users in January 2013, has amassed a collection of information and content from its vast user base. !
Source: Felix Gillette, “Snapchat and the Erasable Future of Social Media,” Buisnessweek.!Photo: Kevin Dooley (Flickr)!
Source: Daniel Gulati, “Put Forth Your Virtual Best,” Huffington Post.!Photo: West.M (Flickr)!
Your Facebook Profile aDracts the most aDenEon from future employers
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Source: Daniel Gulati, “Put Forth Your Virtual Best,” Huffington Post.!Photo: Ryan Tir (Flickr)!
“A recent employer study reveals that 91 percent of employers use social networking sites to !screen employees…”!- Daniel Gulati!
Source: Daniel Gulati, “Put Forth Your Virtual Best,” Huffington Post.!Photo: Joris Louwes (Flickr)!
“…and 69% have rejected an applicant based on what they found.”
-‐Daniel GulaE
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A majority of employers quesEoned agreed that
provocaEve photos had a large impact on whether a candidate
was hired or not.
Source: Rachel Brown, “Don't look now Facebook users, but you're being watched.” Globe and Mail.!
Facial recognition technology has limited our ability to hide unsavory photos from web searches on our person !
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“Just a couple of years ago, we thought that leaving compromising photos !"untagged" would!prevent third parties!from finding!them and!identifying the !people in them !by name…!
Source: Michael Fertik, “Your Future Employer is Watching You Online. You Should Be Too.” Harvard Business Review !Photo: NASA Goddard Photo and Video!
Now you have to anticipate that any! photo…of you ….will carry your!
name and could be found! by anyone.” !
Photo: MAJ Aaron Haney (Flickr)!
Source: Michael Fertik, “Your Future Employer is Watching You Online. You Should Be Too.” Harvard Business Review !
“…you can never know what a company might deem ‘provocaEve.’”
Source: Rachel Brown, “Don't look now Facebook users, but you're being watched.” Globe and Mail.!Phhoto: Incase (Flickr)!
Source: Jeffry Rosen, “The Web Means the End of Forgetting,” New York Times.!Photo: Jurvetson (Flickr)!
“Weʼre hearing stories of employers increasingly asking candidates to open up Facebook pages in front of them during job interviews”! – Micheal Fertik !
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Source: Jeffry Rosen, “The Web Means the End of Forgetting,” New York Times.!Photo: zeevveez (Flickr) !
However, “[t]he future of our online idenEEes and reputaEons will ulEmately be shaped not just by laws and technologies but also by changing social norms.”
Personal information on social media sites and online activity can negatively impact a userʼs employability throughout the hiring process today, but social media sharing is constantly
evolving as it proliferates. Although we are no longer in control of what online information
stays hidden, social perception and norms shift with the new uses and these shifts may
positively transform the way social media personas and professional reputations
converge. !
Photo: Karl-Ludwig G. Poggemann!
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