by Sondra Gomez

Created on: January 29, 2011   Last Updated: December 02, 2011

Social networking is not a whole lot more than social playtime, via the internet. On occasion we will type in life’s more serious events, without really thinking that this is for all to see.

For a probable future employer to use what they have read on a social network about an applicant seeking employment is ridiculous, it would be as though moral application of judgment is considered when reading some persons post on their social networking page.

Most of us, simply use these networks to post things focused around the moment of experience, or our opinion in regard to whatever another has listed. Not a lot different from a phone call.

If a person is to be socially judged by those of whom have such strong decision making control as to if employment will be obtained, and their opinion has a derogatory turn once they have read what they feel to be undesirable information about one’s character through a listing on their social network.  At least the applicant should be allowed to explain themselves, don’t you think?

I actually feel this very public information to be little more than silly, or superficial rhetoric in general. And if one finds another’s posting a cause of discomfort, you can simply avoid them, erase them from your networking list of those you of whom you read their postings.

An employer, or future employer has no right to place judgment on your character, in regard to a job that you are qualified to perform, or your job you currently have and are a productive asset to the venue you represent, because of social gossip of sorts, even if you may have contributed  in some way to such gossip.

Though if you would really want to avoid the possibility of the chance of judgment of such superficial information being the cause of unfair judgment of your other wise good moral character, then keep it clean, if you will. And whatever you post on your social networking page will most certainly be a complementary attribute of character.

I personally use networking to keep up with those of whom I don’t see regularly, and yes sometime give it a double take, and sometime I even find some of what I read to be a turn off of sorts. Though I always see it as not much more than what it is, rhetoric at the fingertips.

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