Then again, it's in a newspaper...

[alexpgp]

According to the Mail Online:

Facebook has become such a pervasive force in modern society that increasing numbers of employers, and even some psychologists, believe people who aren't on social networking sites are 'suspicious.'

How things have changed.

There was a time when putting yourself "onto the Internet" was pretty edgy stuff, so much so that back around the time I signed up with LiveJournal (in mid-2000), some political animal—was it Newt Gingrich?—went on a tear about how this kind of behavior was not A Good Thing™ (which got me thinking and eventually onto LiveJournal).

Although I have no basis for evaluating the credibility and biases of the Daily Mail, what the story suggests does not sound outlandish. After all, lots of people everywhere are just looking for excuses to label others as "suspicious" characters.

This trend has quite a bit to go, I think, and the end result is not going to be pretty.

Cheers...

Comments

[platofish.livejournal.com]

The Mail article is probably an overstatement of the reality, but..... I know when I get someone's resume the first thing I do is search for their presence in social medial, google, etc. These days, not finding anything would be rather strange for someone in their 20s.