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I read three articles on the consequences of blogging. I never realized how many people log on to these sites just to see if you have been or are a blogger. Colleges, business, schools, friends, and even family. Blogging is like talking to the world. You really need to be careful what you say about yourself or about other people.

One story I found to be of interest is called, “Many faces of facebook”.

http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/06/15/facebook

A director of judicial affairs, ( www.uvsc.edu/ombuds/judicial/ ) named, Shawn Mcguirk enjoys a site called, “Facebook”, when he logs on to this site he calls it snooping around. Students tend to leave themselves wide open when it comes to their credibility in the eyes of future job opportunities or their status within the school campus.

A story called, “Thoughts on Facebook” alerts you on five things to think about when using facebook. Your, Invincibility, what is Caching, will you be monitored, being responsible for yourself, and how the law can bite you if your blogs contain personal matter on another person.

Reading a story named, “MySpace in College Admission”,“www.nacacnet.org/MemberPortal/News/StepsNewsletter/myspace_students.htm” named off a few consequences that already happened to some students from the results of someone else reading blogs. At least one college applicant was denied admission in part because of his blog on LiveJournal. Swimmers at Louisiana State criticized coaches on Facebook and were kicked off the team. A high school freshman in Maryland was reportedly suspended because of online photos. Police busted an underage drinking party at George Washington University after they found invitations online. Students in middle school, high school and college are being suspended and expelled for their online indiscretions. Here’s a site to look at that tells a story about a student applying for a job and then the interviewer came across his blog. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/11/us/11recruit.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

According to the 2005 study by executive job-search agency ExecuNet, cited in the Chicago Tribune, 75 percent of recruiters use Web research as part of the applicant screening process.

Ron