Internet Over-Exposure!
Goodbye Twitter
Yesterday I deleted my Twitter account for this blog. I’m thinking about deleting the Facebook page for it as well. It’s just too much to keep up with! I mean, no one really reads all this anyways, and I feel an increasing amount of pressure to constantly be posting, and tweeting, and updating. It’s just too much.
Trying to keep up with three blogs is time consuming. I’ve already pretty much shut down my personal blog, and flirted with the idea of mixing this one with that one, but decided my personal rants were out of place here, it just felt discordant, and if you’ve read all the posts here in the last few weeks, you’ll notice a couple of them have been removed. They were just ruining my buzz, I’m sure they had the same effect on my readers.
The MAN is out to get you!
Another reason for the step back in exposure is simply that I’m in the middle of looking for a job, and I know from my own experience in vetting prospective employees that google can be your enemy if you’re job hunting. These days employers are becoming increasingly fascist about the opinions and personalities of people they hire. It’s a frustrating trend to say the least, but if you want to play the game, you gotta know the rules so you can skirt them.
It seems silly that I should have to worry about prospective employers finding this blog, but these days you can’t be too careful. My twitter account had my full name on it, and when I googled myself it was right there near the top of the list, my whole twitter history and a link to this site. A blog dedicated to drinking your way through Key West probably isn’t exactly what employers might like to see, even if it is mostly bravado.
So I’m removing all traces of my actual name from this and my other blogs, I’m still undecided as to whether I should remove ‘mike’ from my posts or not.. am I being too paranoid? You tell me.
Told you my concerns about this a year ago. I believe you told me to go “f” myself….good suggestion, actually, more fun than cable and cheaper! Keep up the good work!
Well Sean, you know me… I’m a bit behind on the whole ‘right way to do things’ thing…
I guess it makes sense – but I’ll miss your more thought provoking, personal posts. I related to a lot of it, believe it or not, even though our lives are so different. Still, I know that finding a job is priority number one and everything else needs to bend right now in order to make that happen. You can always bend it back later.
Also… Twitter is lame. Celebrate your freedom.
I don’t blame you – unfortunately you are correct to be paranoid about this. I’ve recently heard of employers doing a facebook search to see if they could get access to someone’s personal page that they were interviewing. One of the guys who works for me has a public FB page, and let me tell ya, not the smartest thing to do. I don’t WANT to know what he did with his weekend as a single guy in his early 20s!
Keep up the good work though. My advice for what it is worth – keep the personal stuff personal on FB, and come up with a pseudonym if necessary for your ConchTales posts. But by all means, keep the ConchTales coming!
Keep the Conch Tales going, Mike — if you have to use a pseudonym, then do that. But I think that not only do you enjoy writing them, many of us and more will enjoy reading them.
Ummm, yes. You’re too paranoid. Just lock out outsiders for FB and MyS. BTW, you have to apply for a job before you should worry if they’re lookng for dirt.