What you post on the internet matters a lot......
You may not like the sound of it, but as proven in a court case in the Providence (Rhode Island), a 20-year-old college junior is sentenced to two years in prison for a drink-driving crash.
All this is made possible with the pictures posted by his friends on the social networking site, Facebook.
It is quoted in the Sunday STAR that : Facebook or Myspace......" have offered crime-solving help to detectives and become a resource for employers vetting job applicants."
Undeniably, most people are not worried about the first one, regarding the crime but wait a second!.....what about your credibility as a job applicant? or at a lower level, as a scholarship applicant? or perhaps just to get approval from your future mother-in-law about your behaviour?
Mmmm....perhaps in this digital age, we must accept the fact that these sites are also under scrutiny from prosecuters as a resort to cast doubt on the character of the defendant.
But there is nothing to worry about if we are clean. Anyway, as the saying goes....
"Integrity is doing right when no one is looking".
You may not like the sound of it, but as proven in a court case in the Providence (Rhode Island), a 20-year-old college junior is sentenced to two years in prison for a drink-driving crash.
All this is made possible with the pictures posted by his friends on the social networking site, Facebook.
It is quoted in the Sunday STAR that : Facebook or Myspace......" have offered crime-solving help to detectives and become a resource for employers vetting job applicants."
Undeniably, most people are not worried about the first one, regarding the crime but wait a second!.....what about your credibility as a job applicant? or at a lower level, as a scholarship applicant? or perhaps just to get approval from your future mother-in-law about your behaviour?
Mmmm....perhaps in this digital age, we must accept the fact that these sites are also under scrutiny from prosecuters as a resort to cast doubt on the character of the defendant.
But there is nothing to worry about if we are clean. Anyway, as the saying goes....
"Integrity is doing right when no one is looking".
2 comments:
zainab was here!
oh very cute of you!
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