Extra Credit Post

The economy is tough right now, we've heard that expression far too often in the past 5 or so years. To make matters worse, employers are utilizing the internet to find information on potential candidates before any job offers are made. Unfortunately, in a society obsessed with social networking sites, there is more information about us than we would want to present to employers. For some candidates, sites such as facebook can result in an employer not hiring them due to unfavorable images and other content. In the case of this article, a young woman who was qualified to work in a hospital was not offered a job because of he provocative pictures on facebook of her flashing people. I'm sure this happened very frequently, even though you can change your privacy setting sin 30 seconds so only your friends can access your information. The trouble with that though, is the question of whether or not the privacy settings actually work. In a country under heavy surveillance on all fronts, I'd almost bet that privacy settings aren't as private as we would like to think.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20202935/ns/business-your_retirement/