Should Children Be Banned From Childlike Behavior?

Yesterday the Times Online has an interesting article about a coalition of children’s charities “urging ministers to make it illegal for companies to trawl Facebook and other social networking websites for information on prospective recruits.” One of the campaign leaders suggested that teenagers should not have digital records of their you used against them when applying for jobs.

Has it become a fact of life that the difference between successful candidate and unsuccessful candidate for employment is their ability to manage their online identity? For many web professionals, we have accepted it as a standard of practice to monitor what you post online.

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