Blogs can come back to haunt you

The world of blogging is upon us. The “blogosphere” is doubling every 5 months, a new one being created every second of every day. It appears that everyone has something to say, which is good to know! Teenagers represent the fastest growing group of bloggers, the likes of myspace and facebook having captured their imagination. If you’ve been to these sites you’ll know that a large portion of the conversations that go on are about parties, sex and a mix of activities that any self respecting teenager should be getting up to, but that they would rather their parents didn’t know about. Unfortunately for them, their parents are the least of their worries. Companies frequently use Google searches to gain background information on perspective employees. This means that every misdemeanour that is written about is cached catalogued tagged and stored. This means that what children are writing about now could come back to haunt them.

This is all very unfortunate, but not terrible. The beautiful thing about these social networks is how they grow and develop. Perspective employees where probably the last thing the creators of myspace were thinking about. However it’s a fast and changing world out there. The next contender for the myspace crown will be able to take this on board and adapt accordingly. All I can say is thank god these companies who make a living in doing background checks can’t keep their mouths shut.