New generation shows and "Tells-All"

We are known as the “Tell-All” generation, meaning we have all our information out in the wide world of the web. Whether or not we realize how much of our personal information is actually on the Internet is another issue. Websites probably remember more information about you than your closest friends do, because they have stored memory embedded into the website.

Along with the awesome sharing technology we have on websites like Facebook, Myspace, Friendster etc., we also have to be careful with the information we put out there.

Min Liu, a liberal arts student at the New School in New York City, got a Facebook account at 17 and was sharing her college life in detail. She realized quickly that she needed to be careful with what she was posting because of possible job prospects. “I want people to take me seriously,” she said.

Not only do you want to limit or filter what you put on the Internet for business reasons, but safety reasons as well.

In Colorado, there was a female junior high student who posted her schedule for the week on Myspace, and it turned into a news story. They followed the girls schedule and found her at cheerleading practice exactly where she said she would be. What would have happened had that been a serial murderer looking for her and not a news crew? I love being able to share my life so easily with people that I love via email, posting pictures etc., but I always need to be careful about what I post. If I am looking for a professional career down the road, I don’t really want those people finding pictures I posted my freshman year of college when I was drinking or something along those lines.

When you put something on the Internet, whether or not you mean to share it with the world, you do. The Internet is a public forum and whatever you put out there is there, and you can’t just “take it back.”
So, I guess if you have to think a couple times about whether or not to post that picture, chances are it is better if you don’t, and just show your friends and family later in person.

Be careful with what you post, because you never know who will see it, or the impression you will leave.