When you see someone on Facebook you know from eccie

[Guest010614-2]

Wow !! +1 from TG as well !!

"Thumbs up" to all of you who responded to the OP.

I've seen a lot of (poll-taking) threads on ECCIE, but I can't remember any such thread being unanimous like this !!

TG

[JustMe68]

Absolutely NOT!!! Leave Real Life alone. Providers and hobbyists are real people with wholly separate lives outside of their job/hobby. NEVER forget that what is a fantasy-based, fun & games hobby to the player is a business to the provider. Most people conduct their business lives quite differently than they conduct their personal lives and don't want the two to intermingle.

Leave well enough alone and keep RL and HL separate!

[JustMe68]

Originally Posted by Justin1

Actually, all of the pix you post on facebook are copy protected and nobody else can use them.

Are you kidding me??? Facebook is the biggest privacy sieve in existence and THEY own every bit and byte of ALL of the content you post there. It's in clear black and white print in their insidious Terms of Service, and is the A#1 reason I will NEVER have a Facebook account.

It pisses me off royally that so many companies now require you to "Like" them on FB to get access to specials or contests they run. This means having and account so I refuse, and they lose my business.

Social networking is not the wing-ding wonderful thing everybody thinks it is. Its core function is to create unfathomably large databases FULL of YOUR PERSONAL information, all neatly consolidated for any government or corporate entity to riffle through at their pleasure. NO THANKS!

[fireguydfw]

As a professional career coach...I highly recommend that you disconnect any and all questionable connections/pictures/information from facebook. Granted this is supposed to be a "social networking site" but, the current trend in the HR recruiting world is to find ways to make access into your private world. You play it smart, set up your filters, block access and even prevent tagging by friends. Six months on the job, your new "friend" at the company hits you up for a friend request, you accept, and the flood gates open...all those pictures on your buddies page at the Lake Meade Party Cove with your face crammed into a massive pair of mammaries; your connection to a hobbiest that has a link to a website for hobbiests (blocked unless you're friends...except this is a new feature that has been edited by your friend yet.) And your next visit to HR includes a pink slip with no explanation - because you at an at will employee and they don't have to justify the boot. But if you do try to fight...we the photos and converstations and wesites will certainly show up along with any other financial statements that their investigator choses to uncover. Facebook is forever and it's for the vanilla world of networking...I just wish my 22 year old son would listen.
Just a little bit of advice from a network of career counseling professionals across the country.