How much should you reveal online?

Those who live by their written words may well die by their grammar, syntax, punctuation and spelling gaffes. They are revealing in themselves. Unless you don't care about such things ;-)

I agree with this and pretty much follow the same suit. I talk about social things I may be doing, but I don't talk about my personal life (and those in it) very much at all. Also I don't place my address, phone and email address on FB either...I don't give my birthday either - all those things that lead to ID theft. Don't think you are safe because you have it locked down to friends. A friend of mine did that too - and then someone on her friends list lost her cell phone that with one click opened her facebook (and all of her friends info) and many of them were hit with ID theft - all from her cell phone. Not myself because I didn't have that info on there. Your friends and family close to you have that info already - why give it out to the rest of the world. Same goes for your personal life. There's enough of the little things in daily life that we can all share and relate to without risking problems for ourselves.

I think it is always best to err on the side of caution. I share my emotions, but not all of my business.

I post no photos or info about my my family, or where i live or go to school. If you just want to have a friendly little chat on line that's ok with me. Anything more than that forget it.

Whenever I see articles like this, I wonder just how much more our lives are going to be expected to revolve around our employer. We should be asking ourselves WHY people are being fired for speaking their political views, or blogging about their problems. WHY should employers have the right to fire someone just for complaining, posting drunk pics, or their political viewpoints?

It's one thing if the activity is ILLEGAL. It's another when it just pisses off your boss. I wonder how many bosses are friending their employees under false names just to see if their employee is talking smack. Nobody is asking how far employers can go to find out if their employee is misbehaving online.

Yeah yeah the economy sucks and the media's been telling us to schmooze up, prove our worth as employees, and be good little wage slaves so we won't have to worry about where our next meal is coming from.

But at what price are we censoring ourselves? Why should we treat ourselves like property of a corporation instead of individuals?

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I strongly agree with this post. It's a very good topic because a blog does revael alot of things about an individual, which people may or may not be drawn towards. It is however an excellent way to interact with different cultures and allows us to be connected with others who share, as well as enjoy similar hobbies and opinions. I believe in the power to reach a broad spectrum of different types of individuals, It's effective to use the web as an advertisemant mechanism. I have fun meeting others who have the same interests as myself, and have fun with it. I think it's important not reveal to much information due to dihonesty in the world and dangers with identity theft. You can tell alot about someone by how they express themselves through writing or posting various links. I appreciate how the web has formed different sites like these. It's helped the world connect on a personable level and, allowed people to find others who are like them. Thanks a million

Thank you, Doktor Eevol.

Someone who writes that they hate their job, boss, or co-workers shouldn't be fired for it. Someone who's involved in activities that their employer doesn't approve of while outside of their 40 hours/week shouldn't be fired either. However, job applications now ask if people use social networking sites, and every new applicant gets run through search engines to see what kind of dirt can be found on them.

The internet is just being utilized to discriminate against people. Employers shouldn't be allowed to stalk their employees online. The days of selling our souls to the company store need to end.

I think it's crazy for somebody to lose a job over an opinion that is neither illegal to have, nor inciting violence. This is supposed to be a country where there is free speech, yet voicing a personal thought can end a career.

As far as networking sites go, I tend to use them for networking. If it's for my art then I talk mostly about my art and what I'm doing/working on at the moment. Sometimes I post helpful tips and advice. Rarely I find that I post something off topic; it just depends on how passionate I am about the topic. Most of the people I know tend to go by pen names (authors) and nick names (non authors) so that they can post what they want without worrying about people they don't want to know what they're saying finding themm online.

Cyber relations aren't different from any other form of relations in human life. Discretionary decisions, period! Or don't we have a choice anymore? Whatever you feel is "safe" and share online with your "friends" isn't a choice made for you. Or was there a gun to your head at the time? Lawl. Well society will always be society- whether online or not. Good, bad, cynical, ... Catch my drift?

I don't understand what part of 'New York City Government' has to do with the President. The sad part of it is the Constitution says 'Congress shall pass no law limiting the freedom speech", not people. There is no freedom from reprucussions. I just wonder if any "Civil Rights" have been violated since that seems to be the hip new way to sue lately. *cough ACLU* I feel the remark didn't warrant a firing. She wasn't lying.

Some people do go too far. Not everyone who reads your blog or tweet is a friend. And if it's comments about a business - we should be twice as careful as what we say about ourselves. Most people are terrific - but you know - there's that jealousy factor among others that's bound to cause trouble.

I've read Penelope's blog and found it incredibly inappropriate. The particular article I'm thinking about is where she discusses her multiple abortions. Not only did I think her take on the whole thing was absurd (I'm all for pro-choice, but c'mon), I couldn't believe anyone would put something online that their grandmother would be able to read.

I'm Facebook friends with all of my coworkers, including my boss, but I also made sure that my college photos were cleaned up. I realized that photos of me taking a swig from a Smirnoff bottle just don't look good in any way. I'm also friends with my coworkers on sites such as Yelp, where they can read my restaurant and service reviews that show what I do for fun-- sometimes I just have to be careful with my bar reviews becoming reviews of what actually happened.

This day in age employers are at an unemployment buffet and they don't have to even give a reason for firing you at least not here in Louisiana. It is called "at will employment" and it isn't helping the unemployment rate. I have always remained true to myself but yet have always been a fairly private person so I don't worry about my blogs. As for the unemployment rate it will continue to rise since employers are so carefree and employees are under the constant stress of nonsense firings.

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Cyber relations aren't different from any other form of relations in human life. Discretionary decisions, period! Or don't we have a choice anymore? Whatever you feel is "safe" and share online with your "friends" isn't a choice made for you. Or was there a gun to your head at the time? Lawl. Well society will always be society- whether online or not. Good, bad, cynical, ... Catch my drift?

I rarely reveal anything online; as of yet, the most I've disclosed to anyone, anywhere, is my first name (as opposed to the alias I use online, Kai)

Cyber relations aren't different from any other form of relations in human life. Discretionary decisions, period! Or don't we have a choice anymore? Whatever you feel is "safe" and share online with your "friends" isn't a choice made for you. Or was there a gun to your head at the time? Lawl. Well society will always be society- whether online or not. Good, bad, cynical, ... Catch my drift?

i feel it really depends. If you know the person & what kind of info your giving out. If its facebook or myspace then you should put up security so that no one but your friends know what you look like, are doing, and are saying.

Ah Habanero you want to be careful about telling people you opened a link to a web site with photos of a nude 14 year old on it. You could have the Feds knocking at your door next.