Record dates, comment if interested

Jan 9 - Philosophy on spoilers

Jan 16 - CES coverage

Jan 23 - Chronicles of Riddick trilogy  review (can be provided)

Jan 30 - Effects of online presence on personal/professional life

Personal Effects

Stalking friends
http://www.cosmogirl.com/blog/dating-online-stalking

Stalking a love interest

http://hopedieslast.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/reasons-you-should-never-facebook-stalk-men-who-have-made-you-cry/

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/internetlife/2007-03-07-facebook-stalking_N.htm

http://gawker.com/390004/whos-stalking-you-on-facebook

Self incrimination

http://www.iowastatedaily.com/articles/2006/02/13/news/20060213-archive9.txt

http://www.kcci.com/news/7022519/detail.html

Kelly Laughery, sophomore in pre-business, died Dec. 3, 2005, following injuries sustained during a hit-and-run collision on Mortensen Road. On Dec. 15, 2005, ISU Police named Shanda Munn as suspect

Facebook and MySpace pictures place her at a party nearby before the incident. Plea bargain resulted in 10 year prison sentence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_social_network_websites_in_investigations

Show no remorse for crime

http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2010/01/dont-drink-drive-kill-someone-drink-post-on-facebook.ars

17-year-old Ashley Sullivan had been driving with her boyfriend in Tonawanda when she crashed into a brick pillar at 56 mph in a golf course. Her boyfriend did not survive the accident, and in November of 2009, Sullivan pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide and driving while intoxicated.

That didn't stop Sullivan from posting a photo a month later to her Facebook page with the caption of "Drunk in Florida."

The judge sentenced her to six months in jail with five years probation.

Professional Effects

Calling in sick

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1080010/Call-centre-worker-caught-boss-posting-sickie-plan-Facebook.html

21 year-old Kyle Doyle calls in sick, then posts on Facebook,  'not going to work, f*** it i'm still trashed SICKIE WOO.'

The full exchange:

HR: Please provide a medical certificate stating a valid reason for your sick leave on Thursday 21st2008.

Kyle: “1 day leave absences do not require a medical certificate as stated in my contract, provided I have stated that I am on leave for medical reasons.”

HR: Usually that is the case, as per your contract. However please note that leave during these occasions is only granted for genuine medical reasons. You line manager has determined that your leave was not due to medical reasons and as such we cannot grant leave on this occasion.

Kyle: My leave was due to medical reasons, so you cannot deny leave based on a line manager’s discretion, with no proof, please process leave as requested.  

HR:I believe the proof that you are after is below (a screen grab of the Facebook page is attached to the email)

Sabotage a job offer

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29901380/

Connor Riley, a Master's student at UC Berkley, shared the news of a Cisco job offer on Twitter, but made the unfortunate mistake of insulting the offer.

"Cisco just offered me a job! Now I have to weigh the utility of a fatty paycheck against the daily commute to San Jose and hating the work."

Uncouth Facebook postings closing doors for job candidates
http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/08/uncouth-facebook-postings-closing-doors-for-job-candidates.ars


Microsoft Releases a Study on Data Privacy Day
http://blogs.technet.com/privacyimperative/archive/2010/01/27/microsoft-releases-a-study-on-data-privacy-day.aspx

To commemorate Data Privacy Day, Microsoft released a study conducted with 2,500 consumers, HR managers and recruitment professionals in the US, UK, Germany and France, to learn more about attitudes toward online reputation and how this information can have real life consequences. The results illustrate how we, as a society, are still grappling with the intersection of privacy and online life. For example, 63 percent of consumers surveyed are concerned that online reputation might affect their personal and/or professional life, yet, less than half even consider their reputations when they post online content. Finally, Fewer than 15% of consumers in any of the countries surveyed believe that information found online would have an impact on their getting a job

 Our study found 70% of surveyed HR professionals in U.S. (41% in the UK) have rejected a candidate based on online reputation information. Reputation can also have a positive effect as in the United States, 86% of HR professionals (and at least two thirds of those in the U.K. and Germany) stated that a positive online reputation influences the candidate’s application to some extent; almost half stated that it does so to a great extent.