Comment Nicknames: falling between hobbies and history (Score 1) 308
As someone who's interviewed technical people for jobs, esp. 10 years ago or so, it seems that most of the online nicknames would relate to "hobby" activities. Applying the same rules, that can help you or hurt you: if I like reading about your social money lending (Sydney Morning Herald - Online social money lending takes off), I may be further impressed and want to interview or hire you, but if I don't like your ability to code widgets then it won't make a difference for a technical job.
Given the upcoming ubiquity of online profiles, most people will have them from their early teens (bismarcktribune.com - Myspace generation . The rules should change as hiring managers themselves start to have online personas that cross the gray lines of hirability. So maybe people will only be judged by their LinkedIn-type postings that are meant to be for business history.
And sites like My Death Space may be joined by sites, such as one poster related to old usenet postings, that showcase frozen profiles of people who lost their passwords or account access, and stopped updating even as they continue to live on.
Given the upcoming ubiquity of online profiles, most people will have them from their early teens (bismarcktribune.com - Myspace generation . The rules should change as hiring managers themselves start to have online personas that cross the gray lines of hirability. So maybe people will only be judged by their LinkedIn-type postings that are meant to be for business history.
And sites like My Death Space may be joined by sites, such as one poster related to old usenet postings, that showcase frozen profiles of people who lost their passwords or account access, and stopped updating even as they continue to live on.
