Could Facebook Cost You A @$%&ing Job?
Facebook users, if you're not using the privacy settings, then you'd better watch your language -- otherwise, your wall could cost you employment opportunities.
Facebook users: Watch your language. We repeat: Watch your language. Your Facebook wall could cost you employment opportunities — if you don’t use any of the privacy settings, that is.
Reputation-management outfit Reppler expanded on a startup we’ve previously covered, Social Intelligence, which performs Internet background checks on job candidates, by doing a little research of its own.
After analyzing some 20,000 Facebook profiles, Reppler found that:
- 12 percent contained derogatory language on their walls;
- The same applies for 17 percent of users under 35, while dropping to 5 percent for users over 35; and
- 38 percent of users who had derogatory language on their walls had used the offending terms themselves, while 81 percent were “victimized” by friends’ postings.
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