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I'm not concerned about my friends reading it and thinking less of me, I am concerned about my friends posting made up stuff about me. What if a potential emplo

I'm not concerned about my friends reading it and thinking less of me, I am concerned about my friends posting made up stuff about me. What if a potential employer read it. Totally plausible, totally harmful. Imagine if it happened and I had no idea about dirtyphonebook.com, I wouldn't know to protest anything. Then I am out of luck with the employer. There are many avenues of abuse. I don't want to search by terms, I want to search by my area and scan for people I may know based on the comments. It is like 3 word changes in an SQL query to add the ability to search by area code.

AnonPm42 16y ago
* Forget DPB for a minute. Wouldn't employers be faced with discrimination suits if they tried to base hiring decisions on any random Internet post? * After photos are implemented, I am probably going to build the feature you suggest. It wasn't a priority on day 1 to have that until we started getting a lot of content to organize.
- SHOwnsYou 16y ago
  It is pretty well known/publicized that employers view facebook/myspace/whatever profiles of potential hires and I've yet to hear of a discrimination suit based on that.
- AnonPm42 16y ago
  Reply to SHOwnsYou, sorry I hit the wrong reply. What's the key qualitative difference between a facebook profile and a dirtyphonebook page? I'm not a lawyer, but your answer probably lies in understanding this first.