Losing Jobs Over Blogs
July 13th, 2005 by LaurieCan venting about home, work, life or anything for that matter actually get you fired? Well according to a newspaper article in the Montgomery Advertiser,,,, It can and it does! People all over the world are using their blogs as personal online journals….. and are possibly saying too much. For instance several bloggers have been fired for writing about work in their blogs. According to Amanda Lenhart, a researcher at the Pew Internet and American Life Project who tracks how young Americans use the internet, stories of these so-called personal diaries online are getting more and more people in hot water. When looking for job it is important that if your name is googled titles on your blog such as “The Drunken Musings of….” doesn’t pop up!Lenhart said that a man did research his niece, who was a college student searching for a job, and found her blog with that exact title! Ouch! I think the lesson to be learned is to always be careful of what you publish because it is public and if you can’t watch what you write maybe you should think about passwords because down the road that one post about something bad or crazy or whatever….. may just come back to haunt you! Final note: Maya Marcel-Keyes, daughter of conservative politician Alan Keyes, discussed her being a lesbian on her blog and during her father’s recent campaign for a U.S. Senate seat in Illinois…. guess what came up? (he made many statements throughout his campaign which were anti-gay)