> A staggering 96 per cent say they would reject someone based on what they had posted.
Ok, but “what they had posted” could mean anything. Are you rejecting someone because they post political memes you don’t like, or because they post about showing up to work late and high and calling their coworkers incompetent morons?
> The data reveals that 26 per cent of Gen Z had been rejected because of social media
How often is the employer *telling* them this is the reason, vs people self-reporting “I bet they rejected me because of my dank memes.”
LavisAlex on
I feel this will lead to the downfall of social media itself. You can trap the first bunch of people with this shift, but eventually people will be taught to not use it or everyone goes to an unrecognizable monicker.
Jamstarr2024 on
Millennials knew this over a decade ago. The Wild West of The Facebook and MySpace has been dead. I can’t even count the number of dumb posts that I had to delete for this reason. Losing some super fun photos from college to the ether of internet and time.
I know my employer, especially for higher visibility roles absolutely troll social media for posts that would be seen as flags. The criteria differ depending on vertical.
mostangg on
One time I posted a picture of me smoking a bong when I was barely 18 and instagram was brand new. My older brother saw it, told my mom, and she gave me the most ridiculing lecture about posting online lasting forever and not leaving an impact on my future self. Hated the conversation then, but it stuck with me. I haven’t posted anything stupid or incriminating online in over 15 years since.
Learned that lesson at an early age from wise parents who weren’t even that digital then. And it’s sad that today’s generation of parents aren’t as proactive in their kids lives to warn them of potential future issues with public posting.
I also come from a time where we were told that politics was not a dinner table conversation (I guess online now), that it was to be treated like religion and should be maintained behind closed doors. Ups and downs to that belief system, but generally it prevented you from this hyper polarization that is taking place in the US and many other places today.
I miss the times when your entire “personality” wasn’t plastered somewhere online.
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> A staggering 96 per cent say they would reject someone based on what they had posted.
Ok, but “what they had posted” could mean anything. Are you rejecting someone because they post political memes you don’t like, or because they post about showing up to work late and high and calling their coworkers incompetent morons?
> The data reveals that 26 per cent of Gen Z had been rejected because of social media
How often is the employer *telling* them this is the reason, vs people self-reporting “I bet they rejected me because of my dank memes.”
I feel this will lead to the downfall of social media itself. You can trap the first bunch of people with this shift, but eventually people will be taught to not use it or everyone goes to an unrecognizable monicker.
Millennials knew this over a decade ago. The Wild West of The Facebook and MySpace has been dead. I can’t even count the number of dumb posts that I had to delete for this reason. Losing some super fun photos from college to the ether of internet and time.
I know my employer, especially for higher visibility roles absolutely troll social media for posts that would be seen as flags. The criteria differ depending on vertical.
One time I posted a picture of me smoking a bong when I was barely 18 and instagram was brand new. My older brother saw it, told my mom, and she gave me the most ridiculing lecture about posting online lasting forever and not leaving an impact on my future self. Hated the conversation then, but it stuck with me. I haven’t posted anything stupid or incriminating online in over 15 years since.
Learned that lesson at an early age from wise parents who weren’t even that digital then. And it’s sad that today’s generation of parents aren’t as proactive in their kids lives to warn them of potential future issues with public posting.
I also come from a time where we were told that politics was not a dinner table conversation (I guess online now), that it was to be treated like religion and should be maintained behind closed doors. Ups and downs to that belief system, but generally it prevented you from this hyper polarization that is taking place in the US and many other places today.
I miss the times when your entire “personality” wasn’t plastered somewhere online.