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Your Digital Footprint - do you care?

  • 25-03-2015 2:40pm
    #1
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,088 ✭✭✭✭


    So I read an article earlier (here ya go) that told a story about a guy who is stuck in a bit of a rut at work and who goes to an Agency to see what options he has.

    Apparently the first thing he's told is that his "digital footprint is toxic" .. that all those profanity-riddled Twitter posts he made about politics, football and what not suggest him to be a very negative disgruntled person and (obviously) not at all attractive to an employer

    Speaking for myself, I've worked in IT for nearly 20 years now and spend most of my day "connected" but I've never seen the appeal of Facebook or Twitter so I rarely use them (and by rarely I mean my last post on Facebook was last year thanking people for wishing me a happy birthday). Right or wrong I see Facebook as filled with people posting 99% shyte about the trivialities of their day, stupid games or "challenges", or clickbait spam for some competition they haven't a hope of winning. Twitter isn't much better unless you just use it for news, traffic etc alerts.

    If it wasn't for the fact that it's the only way to reach some people I'd happily delete them entirely but the point at the end of the above article that "not having a digital footprint in this day and age does not look good" is a bit bemusing .. since when did this (IMO) trival time-eating nonsense become relevant to how good you are at your job/career, or are people really not capable of keeping their home/personal lives and professional lives separate?

    So, do ye folk of Boards care about the "trail" you leave on social media? Has it ever been "held against you" as described above, or do you not even think about it? What about those of us who take steps to protect our privacy by locking down online profiles? Does that now mean that you're "hiding something"?

    What do ye reckon yourselves?


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  • #2
    uck51js9zml2yt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,268 ✭✭✭✭uck51js9zml2yt


    I'm in IT and careful of what I say online using my name.


  • #3
    Eoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,263 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    "not having a digital footprint in this day and age does not look good"

    I don't agree with this*, but I don't think that's the relevant thing to take away from the article.

    Like tatranska, I'm careful enough with that I post on social media (though, now I think about it, I probably need to be careful when tweeting while watching a rugby match that's getting me excitable)
    ight or wrong I see Facebook as filled with people posting 99% shyte about the trivialities of their day, stupid games or "challenges", or clickbait spam
    ...
    (IMO) trival time-eating nonsense

    Blame the users, not the platform. For some people it's a very useful tool.

    * though not having a LinkedIn profile could be seen a strange for people in certain roles. If you're in marketing, hospitality etc then perhaps that could reasonably extend to other social networks too.


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