... You want the largest group of egotistical flamers and trolls on the planet to submit their, "accurate, truthful opinion" on photos determining the scale of damage? Sounds like you're relying on the wrong demographic. Don't get me wrong, I'm a gamer, but a very nice one at that. A majority of them would love to screw this system up in a MAJOR way.

I agree with kdawson on the issue. Let me explain.

While one might deem it ignorant to throw myself under the bus with my reply-header, it's the truth. I've no problem admitting that I'm inexperienced. I'm twenty-four years old working in the IT field as an intern-programmer. My, "title" is Intern Developer.

I've been working on various different software development projects for just about a year now. But, I feel that my inexperience allows me to answer this in a different light. "Kids these days", are different. To be honest, they're more spoiled, have less-solid upbringing from their parents (where are your manners, young man/woman?), and it really influences them in the long run.

Couple that with the way my generation and younger portray themselves in the world of IT. Everyone in generation-y or younger couples video games (which bears the fruit of an unrivaled competitive edge) meshed with hiding behind the mask of internet anonymity. It becomes habitual. Pride, prejudice, and egotistical behaviors floods through younger society. It's a defense mechanism. They're not used to being told, "you're don't know what you're doing".

In my opinion, at my age, if I were in the hiring position and saw anyone acting the way kdawson described, they'd be out the door faster than I had let them in. Behavior like that shows lack of compromise and cooperation. It shows the inability to learn new things (or the desire for that matter), lack of adaptability, and an overall poor sense of manners and business ethics; There's no sense of humility.

While some have thousands of excuses for it, I call it a lack of maturity. It's time to grow up. You're working in a field that is a profession. You don't become a professional over night. I personally believe these things are common sense. A college degree gets you the first job and education you need/desire, but it's only the tip of the iceberg.

Send similar prospects home kdawson, they deserve to learn a lesson or two.

I highly doubt that will be the case.

The internet is a funny "place". The lines between privacy and publicity are blurred. Those lines are only visible through the functionality supplied by web-application at hand.

But, still publicity is publicity and privacy is privacy. If something about you is public, obviously the world has the right to see, know and question it.

If something about you is private, it's not public. You keep it to yourself or you choose to make it public. You have choice. You choose your degree of privacy on facebook via the functionality it offers. You either restrict or limit the public eye to whatever degree you "choose" within the confines of the functionality allotted by facebook (which is ample in my opinion).

If an employer sees information about you that you've made private by some other means, they can't legally use it against you (unless it's your fault that it was made public).

Lesson: If you don't know how to use facebook (or alternative(s)) don't use it. If and when you do, not understanding that discretion should not be taken lightly is, in many cases, ignorance.

But, legal, ethical and moral issues on the internet are still in the early stages and hence very underdeveloped. One's own knowledge on how these things work is of utmost importance.

Thus, logically, it would be wise for those who have public profiles on the internet out there to use discretion.

I agree; The concept is oxymoronic. facebook is the online equivalent of a public forum. It is public space where you CHOOSE whether to display information about yourself or not.

Absolutely: If you're too lazy to delve into the extensive privacy options facebook has to offer, then that's your ass. I wouldn't hire you not because you look like an ass on facebook; I wouldn't hire you because you were too stupid to learn how to hide it.

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