After many years of trying to set personal goals in various ways and then failing to stick to them, I’m finally having some success. I can’t claim all the credit for this. To get from someone who has never been able to be consistent at anything, to someone who appears to be making the [...]
Just wait a little while. Eventually social search will reach the point where with a simple question you can ask the internet what facebook groups someone has been a member of. To the 14 year old who set up the kick a ginger group on Facebook that might not be scary, but let’s hope he never applies to a company with anti-discrimination policies for a job. Oh wait – that’s all of them isn’t it? Let’s hope the same for those other 20,000 members of that group. All now tainted with the fact that they joined a group that resulted in violence. All idiots.
I wrote a few weeks back about how social search is going to empower educators, employer and governments to easily find out everything you have said about yourself online. When it becomes available it will become a part of almost every selection process for every company and institution.
The associations you create on the internet are there forever so I don’t understand why there aren’t more parents educating their children about managing their online life. The internet is connecting idiots like never before and let’s face it, past a certain age most kids are idiots. At the moment their safety is in numbers. It’s the pack mentality that numbers create anonymity but the internet won’t forget and every day it’s becoming easier and easier to search. One day everyone’s online behaviours will be profiled. Including yours.
Tags: Parenting, social search, technology