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I'd rather live in a world where people realize that pretty much everyone takes silly photos, and it doesn't have any effect on one's ability to perform a job.
by natrius 16y ago
I'd rather live in a world where people realize that pretty much everyone takes silly photos, and it doesn't have any effect on one's ability to perform a job.
Regardless, photos started off being visible to everyone at your school, which basically makes them accessible by anyone. There are no previous guarantees of privacy that have somehow changed. It's also very easy to set your privacy to your desired level.
- sausagefeet 16y agoBut it used to be that only people in a whitelist of schools could be on facebook, which was a pretty small number of people.
- natrius 16y agoPhotos came out in 2005, I think. Plenty of schools were on Facebook at that point.
- sausagefeet 16y ago"everyone at your school" and "everyone" are different by a few orders of magnitude.
- natrius 16y agoIn the context of job applications, it's not different at all. It's not hard to find someone who went to a given school and will look someone up for you. It was commonplace back when school networks were meaningful on Facebook.