I recently got a facebook message from a friend asking me to remove a couple of pictures of her from my albums. She's not tagged and they're not particularly scandalous in any way, but she said it's not the image she wants to present. Removed, no problem. They were from a few years ago, so totally cool. Whatever.
It did get me thinking about the image I myself am building at present. Every time I pose for a photo I am fully aware that it may end up on the internet somewhere and anyone on earth, from my parents to my priest to my future grandkids, might see it. Everything I post to the internet or send out in emails has the full possibility of being read by anyone. I think as a citizen of the internet or whatever, we all need to be aware of this.
Of course there are things I write and pictures I take that I’d prefer certain people not see. I do dumb things, I drink too much and act silly, I get angry and rant. It happens. And even at my worst there is always a chance the world will find out, so I just have to make sure that I don’t do anything too horrid and if I do, no one is recording the moment. I have tons of images and thoughts recorded that if read by my boss at a staff meeting or my parents at a family dinner would probably make me really embarrassed, but that’s all. Nothing I should rightfully get disowned or fired over. As long as I stay on this side of the line, I think I’m fine.
All grown-ups should realize they have a responsibility to manage their own images. This isn’t something new, people have always gossiped. It’s just now that mistakes you make can have a much longer lasting and farther reaching impact.
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Showing posts with label internet. Show all posts
20 July 2008
i don't want to join your facebook group
One of my managers started a facebook group for a work community I’m in and sent an email telling people to join. I do not want to join. But of course, by not joining - they [work people] will notice. I know it’s not a mandatory thing. I could probably speak to my manager about it and explain why I don’t want to join this group on facebook. She’s an awesome person and totally understanding. And yet, I have a feeling it would only end up with me looking like a complete jerk or a weirdo with something to hide. Which is not really it.
Except, it kinda is. I’m hiding my personal life, kinda. Something people have been doing for ages. I’m guessing that 20 years ago, before the internet, work colleagues never knew their coworker’s favorite movies, number one song, and which bars they were at last weekend. I’d sort of like to maintain the old way for now.
I’ve already removed links to my blogs and hid most of my photos on facebook because of the growing number of work contacts I have on my ‘friends’ list. This limited profile shite that facebook has doesn't really work, in the social sense. I mean, yes- technically, I can hide the stuff. However, people who have your limited profile KNOW that they have the limited version, methinks. And it probably offends them.
One day I’d like to think that my work life and my personal life will be friends. That everything I say here can be heard there. But right now, I’d like to keep them separate. Work people do not need to see my angsty blog posts about dumb boys or the 10 million pictures of graffiti that I’ve accumulated on my flickr. They don't need to know if I got drunk last weekend or had a fight with my parents or stubbed my toe on a closet door.
Really.
Of course, I guess it doesn't make much sense to ask for a facebook exclusion, as I throw all these details of my life on the internet anyways. It’s not like they're hidden in my secret diary or in a box under my bed. But still, I don't know. For my friends, yes - of course they should be able to see my pictures and read my rants. That's part of the reason I document everything- to share it with them; I keep everyone in the loop while documenting our hijinks. I just wish it wasn't so easy for my professional contacts to also be able to see all my internet secrets so easily.
Except, it kinda is. I’m hiding my personal life, kinda. Something people have been doing for ages. I’m guessing that 20 years ago, before the internet, work colleagues never knew their coworker’s favorite movies, number one song, and which bars they were at last weekend. I’d sort of like to maintain the old way for now.
I’ve already removed links to my blogs and hid most of my photos on facebook because of the growing number of work contacts I have on my ‘friends’ list. This limited profile shite that facebook has doesn't really work, in the social sense. I mean, yes- technically, I can hide the stuff. However, people who have your limited profile KNOW that they have the limited version, methinks. And it probably offends them.
One day I’d like to think that my work life and my personal life will be friends. That everything I say here can be heard there. But right now, I’d like to keep them separate. Work people do not need to see my angsty blog posts about dumb boys or the 10 million pictures of graffiti that I’ve accumulated on my flickr. They don't need to know if I got drunk last weekend or had a fight with my parents or stubbed my toe on a closet door.
Really.
Of course, I guess it doesn't make much sense to ask for a facebook exclusion, as I throw all these details of my life on the internet anyways. It’s not like they're hidden in my secret diary or in a box under my bed. But still, I don't know. For my friends, yes - of course they should be able to see my pictures and read my rants. That's part of the reason I document everything- to share it with them; I keep everyone in the loop while documenting our hijinks. I just wish it wasn't so easy for my professional contacts to also be able to see all my internet secrets so easily.
17 January 2008
im a nerd, reasons #98234 and #82347
i'm trying to get my company to let me go to a nerd conference in march. i can get into the conference for free (cos i'm a smart nerd) but i'd prefer not to use vacation days to attend. so i'm going to see if it can count as 'training' of some sort.
if it works out it will be tremendously!! awesome. and i will be a nerd princess.
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also. my morning started off just right when my favorite coworker/exroomie called to let me know that tourfilter had sent out an mxpx alert overnight. they're coming to the bean!!!
mxpx? you say. from when we were 12? you say. YES. MxPx baby! we know i love all things middleschool. and i LOVE MIKE. and MXPX.
its an all ages show w/ yellowcard. i think there will be 20million babies there. and ellen and i. it will be awesome. i told ellen that we should make signs. 'TAKE ME TO BREMERTON' or something to that effect. haha.
its on the last night of sxsw tho. i'm conflicted. but its MXPX!!!
ugh. i love my teenage drama filled life. its so sad and so comical, all at once.
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also. i LOVE tourfilter.com for telling me things. even if i cant go to all the concerts i want to (hotchips-soldout, jenslekman-suisse) its still nice to see the info in my inbox. shoutout to tourfilter!
if it works out it will be tremendously!! awesome. and i will be a nerd princess.
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also. my morning started off just right when my favorite coworker/exroomie called to let me know that tourfilter had sent out an mxpx alert overnight. they're coming to the bean!!!
mxpx? you say. from when we were 12? you say. YES. MxPx baby! we know i love all things middleschool. and i LOVE MIKE. and MXPX.
its an all ages show w/ yellowcard. i think there will be 20million babies there. and ellen and i. it will be awesome. i told ellen that we should make signs. 'TAKE ME TO BREMERTON' or something to that effect. haha.
its on the last night of sxsw tho. i'm conflicted. but its MXPX!!!
ugh. i love my teenage drama filled life. its so sad and so comical, all at once.
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also. i LOVE tourfilter.com for telling me things. even if i cant go to all the concerts i want to (hotchips-soldout, jenslekman-suisse) its still nice to see the info in my inbox. shoutout to tourfilter!
14 January 2008
la-la-la-la- linkedin
people keep telling me i should spend more time developing my professional network and making use of tools like linkedin, rather than spending my time playing around with photos of street art and harassing my roomates on facebook. as if there were more important things to do on the internet than finding new music or reading the latest celebrity news. pshh.
anyways.
in response to the nagging, i've recently gone on a few linkedin contact frenzies and added people as my 'contacts'. today, when confirming that in fact i do work with this dude (who is also my fb friend, so like, totally legit- HA.) the little, "people you may know" part of the screen on the side (which usually has random people that i've never heard of working for companies that sound boring) today had the founder of one of my favorite music blogs. though i dont actually know this person at all and have never communicated with him outside of leaving random comments on his blog, my finger was really itching to add him as a contact. just because. because he has a blog i like and i appreciate his taste in music...
only i had to remember. this is 'professional' networking. not like myspace. i dont think, "hey-love the blog!" is a legit reason to add people here. if we were on myspace we'd totally be friends by now and i would have sent him one of those blinking comment things that say, 'thanks for the add!!!!!'.
ha. yeah right. as if i even knew how to make one of those blinky myspace comment things. pshh. i'm too old for that. i freaking hate all the blinking and sparkly stuff on myspace- makes me want to poke my eyes out. thats why maybe linkedin is my scene now...
so old.
anyways.
in response to the nagging, i've recently gone on a few linkedin contact frenzies and added people as my 'contacts'. today, when confirming that in fact i do work with this dude (who is also my fb friend, so like, totally legit- HA.) the little, "people you may know" part of the screen on the side (which usually has random people that i've never heard of working for companies that sound boring) today had the founder of one of my favorite music blogs. though i dont actually know this person at all and have never communicated with him outside of leaving random comments on his blog, my finger was really itching to add him as a contact. just because. because he has a blog i like and i appreciate his taste in music...
only i had to remember. this is 'professional' networking. not like myspace. i dont think, "hey-love the blog!" is a legit reason to add people here. if we were on myspace we'd totally be friends by now and i would have sent him one of those blinking comment things that say, 'thanks for the add!!!!!'.
ha. yeah right. as if i even knew how to make one of those blinky myspace comment things. pshh. i'm too old for that. i freaking hate all the blinking and sparkly stuff on myspace- makes me want to poke my eyes out. thats why maybe linkedin is my scene now...
so old.
17 December 2007
20 February 2007
internetter
sites i'm currently obsessed with:
we went to charlies kitchen the other night (again) and i kept staring at this kid at the bar. he wasn't even hot. he just kinda sorta looked like kevin rose. which makes me a complete dorky nerdy loser. who checks out guys who look like techy startup dorks. okkkk. i need to stop.
- ebay.com
- graffitiresearchlab.com
- tourfilter.com
- radioblogclub.com
- wikipedia.org
- digg.com
we went to charlies kitchen the other night (again) and i kept staring at this kid at the bar. he wasn't even hot. he just kinda sorta looked like kevin rose. which makes me a complete dorky nerdy loser. who checks out guys who look like techy startup dorks. okkkk. i need to stop.
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