Speak for Success Ezine
Helping You Speak and Be Heard
April 2009
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Dear Friend,

Please help me spread some caution and advice by forwarding this issue to the people in your life who could use some education on how to best use online social media. Most people aren't really thinking about the consequences of sharing so much personal information online.

When something is posted on the internet it will live on for a very long time. Do you really want a potential employer, or your boss knowing what you did with your friends at last Friday night's party? Do you really want him to see the photos?

We are living in Googletime (hey, I like that word!). Anyone can find out almost anything about you quickly and easily. I hope that this month's article will help you control what you want others to know about you and think twice before posting something you'll regret.

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Here's to your success!

Dana Bristol-Smith

ps - click on the Forward link at the bottom of the page and you can send this to up to 5 friends with one message (email addresses are not stored).

What are Google & Facebook Saying About You?
 
By Dana Bristol-Smith

Personal disclosure seems to be the theme or fad of the moment. Is it here to stay? And, do we really want everyone to know everything about us?

In the past couple of weeks I have learned this news from some of my Facebook friends through their posts:

  • One had a massive heart attack
  • A 14-year old had a stomachache
  • A colleague's sibling had died
  • A grandchild was born
  • Someone had pizza for dinner
  • Someone else had cereal
This trend of casual disclosure of life's significant events, (not having cereal for dinner) has me worried. It seems that teens and 20 somethings who use Facebook and MySpace don't care a lot about who knows what about them (as long as it's not their parents).

As parents and grandparents have invaded Facebook and other social networking sites and aren't going away any time soon, some of the disclose everything habits have taken hold of them too.

I'd like you to consider that your Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace page, or Blog is an online presentation of who you are. They are in fact, the first place continued here


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Enjoy this awesome performance by Blue Man Group and turn down the volume if you are at work. I can't watch this without breaking out into a big smile! If the video screen isn't visible click on this You Tube link.


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