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Law students are idiots.Anonymous User wrote: Someone please explain this phenomenon to me.
Tom Joad wrote:Ironic use of anon.
Pretty much.Ozymandias wrote:Law students are idiots.Anonymous User wrote: Someone please explain this phenomenon to me.
Or just learn how the privacy settings work and post whatever the hell you want.Bildungsroman wrote:Pretty much.Ozymandias wrote:Law students are idiots.Anonymous User wrote: Someone please explain this phenomenon to me.
Here's a life tip for all law students: only put things on facebook that you're fine with the whole world knowing. Don't put up pictures of yourself getting high, pouring a bottle of whisky down your throat, peeing in an alley, etc. Don't post statuses about how satisfying your last shit was, or how you love committing ethical lapses and missing deadlines. Don't join groups like "1 million strong for holocaust denial." It's a website, not a diary with a heart-shaped lock you keep under your bed.
ilovesf wrote:Tom Joad wrote:Ironic use of anon.
Sure. Although I'd probably still opt for the adult option, where you choose not to create a damaging online profile that you justify by only limiting it to like a thousand of your closest friends. I mean, I'm not a teenager any more, so I can survive without making asinine status updates about how hard I rage*.gyarados wrote:Or just learn how the privacy settings work and post whatever the hell you want.Bildungsroman wrote:Pretty much.Ozymandias wrote:Law students are idiots.Anonymous User wrote: Someone please explain this phenomenon to me.
Here's a life tip for all law students: only put things on facebook that you're fine with the whole world knowing. Don't put up pictures of yourself getting high, pouring a bottle of whisky down your throat, peeing in an alley, etc. Don't post statuses about how satisfying your last shit was, or how you love committing ethical lapses and missing deadlines. Don't join groups like "1 million strong for holocaust denial." It's a website, not a diary with a heart-shaped lock you keep under your bed.
I don't know. But I got a CB at a firm and I noticed someone in their office had looked at my linked-in. So they're definitely out there looking at things.slack_academic wrote:You think this is an issue? I mean, my settings allow people to look me up, see very basic info, and see simple profile picture where I'm not visibly wasted or taking part in a criminal act. You think recruiters care about that?r6_philly wrote:I wonder what recruiters think when they can't find you on Facebook.
It's also true that a lot of people use privacy settings to make their FB unsearchable. While everyone has a FB page, is it that unusual for it not to show up in search results by perfect strangers not in the person's network? Especially law students during recruiting season? This has got to be really common.r6_philly wrote:My linked in is definitely visited a lot before screeners and callbacks. I talked about facebook at a screener last week. I think many recruiters will search, and if they can't find anything, some people may feel strange. Come on, everyone has a facebook page, what do you have to hide? I don't know if it is negative, but if you have a clean, professional profile, it's just another piece of circumstantial evidence that you are a mature, professional adult with some sense of good judgment.
The bolded is why I love this post.slack_academic wrote:You think this is an issue? I mean, my settings allow people to look me up, see very basic info, and see simple profile picture where I'm not visibly wasted or taking part in a criminal act. You think recruiters care about that?r6_philly wrote:I wonder what recruiters think when they can't find you on Facebook.
Yes, but they may ask why you want to be opted out when potential employers are potentially looking for you to check you out? Recall it's been widely reported that employers would ask people to login to their facebook during interviews -- employers must want to see what you have on your facebooks.Perseus_I wrote:It's also true that a lot of people use privacy settings to make their FB unsearchable. While everyone has a FB page, is it that unusual for it not to show up in search results by perfect strangers not in the person's network? Especially law students during recruiting season? This has got to be really common.r6_philly wrote:My linked in is definitely visited a lot before screeners and callbacks. I talked about facebook at a screener last week. I think many recruiters will search, and if they can't find anything, some people may feel strange. Come on, everyone has a facebook page, what do you have to hide? I don't know if it is negative, but if you have a clean, professional profile, it's just another piece of circumstantial evidence that you are a mature, professional adult with some sense of good judgment.
I mean, opting out of searches is one of the basic privacy settings that's been around for a very long time.
If by "widely reported" you mean "it's been in the news that unethical employers are doing this", then yes. No respectable firm would ever do something like that. Similarly, there's nothing wrong with having no facebook, or completely hiding your profile.r6_philly wrote:Yes, but they may ask why you want to be opted out when potential employers are potentially looking for you to check you out? Recall it's been widely reported that employers would ask people to login to their facebook during interviews -- employers must want to see what you have on your facebooks.
gyarados wrote:If by "widely reported" you mean "it's been in the news that unethical employers are doing this", then yes. No respectable firm would ever do something like that. Similarly, there's nothing wrong with having no facebook, or completely hiding your profile.r6_philly wrote:Yes, but they may ask why you want to be opted out when potential employers are potentially looking for you to check you out? Recall it's been widely reported that employers would ask people to login to their facebook during interviews -- employers must want to see what you have on your facebooks.
r6_philly wrote:My linked in is definitely visited a lot before screeners and callbacks. I talked about facebook at a screener last week. I think many recruiters will search, and if they can't find anything, some people may feel strange. Come on, everyone has a facebook page, what do you have to hide? I don't know if it is negative, but if you have a clean, professional profile, it's just another piece of circumstantial evidence that you are a mature, professional adult with some sense of good judgment.
Yup.gyarados wrote:Or just learn how the privacy settings work and post whatever the hell you want.
Of course that is true. But why would someone post whatever they hell they want? What do you get out of it? Why is it a joy/pleasure to post stuff that you would take away your credibility or reputation as a lawyer?MrKappus wrote:Yup.gyarados wrote:Or just learn how the privacy settings work and post whatever the hell you want.
Lol WTF. I read over philly's post the first time thinking he was just writing about employers checking FB pages.gyarados wrote:If by "widely reported" you mean "it's been in the news that unethical employers are doing this", then yes. No respectable firm would ever do something like that. Similarly, there's nothing wrong with having no facebook, or completely hiding your profile.r6_philly wrote:Yes, but they may ask why you want to be opted out when potential employers are potentially looking for you to check you out? Recall it's been widely reported that employers would ask people to login to their facebook during interviews -- employers must want to see what you have on your facebooks.
best thing i've seen on tls all dayOzymandias wrote:ilovesf wrote:Tom Joad wrote:Ironic use of anon.
This has not been reported at firms. But I wouldn't put it past smaller firms.flcath wrote: Lol WTF. I read over philly's post the first time thinking he was just writing about employers checking FB pages.
Making you log-on in front of them?! Please tell me that no one here would agree to do that. Not to pull the billy-badass-on-the-internet routine, but there's a 0% chance I'd do this, even on a CB.
Huh?r6_philly wrote:Why is it a joy/pleasure to post stuff that you would take away your credibility or reputation as a lawyer?