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3 Responses to "BlogOrlando: Taking Smart Risks with Your Online Personality"
I don’t know, I think this is one place where you and I disagree, and I am sometimes wary of bringing it up, but, whatev, it’s not as you’re going to disown me over my opinion. I hope not anyway.
To the point - I do try to keep my personal and my work lives separate. For example, and this is just lucky on my part, but when I apply for jobs I definitely use my full name, and it’s #1 because for forms and stuff it’s unavoidable and over time it’s been less confusing to start off that way (I dont know why, you would think the opposite). This has what I see as a benefit though - in order to find almost anything about me online, you have to go with “Nikki” and on a first glance at my resume, no one is going to search that - they are going to search my first name. Great. They don’t need to know about my politics when I’m applying for a job. And I just feel that way because I just don’t think it’s my employer’s business if I think John McCain is an asshole. The only way it would be is if I were applying FOR a political job of some sort. Since I won’t ever be, it doesn’t need to come up, and I’m frankly fine with saving myself the lawsuit. It’s why I don’t blog about work (which, I know, like I blog anymore at all, but that’s nothing to do with this and everything to do with burnout of another kind, but I digress).
I guess my point is that some people have a valid, personal reason for not feeling like it’s all that and a bag of chips to have every detail of their personal lives on the internet. I don’t mind if anyone else does, but maybe it’s not for me. I realize what probably sets my take on it apart from some of these people is that I’m not *judging* anyone for having 100-0% of their lives online, I just understand why I make the choice *I* make, without feeling like it’s incumbent upon me to force it on someone else.
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