Facebook helps me bring business into the bar, and to keep in touch with old and new friends. The friends I have are a humourous bunch, and updates are not of the "been to the shops, bought runner beans" variety, often they make me laugh and some good banter is to be had. I now have access to photos from years gone by that other people had taken and that I had never seen, bringing back some great memories that had been lost in a haze of alcohol.
I was advised to get myself onto Facebook when I lost my job The reason being that potential employers may search the internet to find out about you and not having a Facebook page may be taken as a bad thing... The other thing I was told to get onto was Linkedin - I've got a sort of minimal presence on that as well now...
[cite]Posted By: Saga Lout[/cite]I was advised to get myself onto Facebook when I lost my job The reason being that potential employers may search the internet to find out about you and not having a Facebook page may be taken as a bad thing... The other thing I was told to get onto was Linkedin - I've got a sort of minimal presence on that as well now...
A bad thing? What about the stories of employers checking Facebook for drunken photos, statuses moaning about work etc.
[cite]Posted By: Saga Lout[/cite]I was advised to get myself onto Facebook when I lost my job The reason being that potential employers may search the internet to find out about you and not having a Facebook page may be taken as a bad thing... The other thing I was told to get onto was Linkedin - I've got a sort of minimal presence on that as well now...
Correction - shows what morons are saying. Anyone who has their privacy settings allowing everyone to see everything they write is an absolute pilchard. Seriously - go through it by searching for pretty much anything. You'll see - pretty much every post is written by people with the IQ of a chicken nugget.
[cite]Posted By: Saga Lout[/cite]I was advised to get myself onto Facebook when I lost my jobThe reason being that potential employers may search the internet to find out about you and not having a Facebook page may be taken as a bad thing... The other thing I was told to get onto was Linkedin - I've got a sort of minimal presence on that as well now...
absolute rubbish in my opinion
Based on what? I'm just relaying to you what I was told by a recruitment professional
[cite]Posted By: BlackForestReds[/cite]More likely potential employers will look at FB to check out whether you behave yourself when out of work.
That's exactly my point - I thought that if I didn't have a facebook presence that would be okay, but I was told by an expert in the field of recruitment that it's better to be on facebook to show yourself in a good light, rather than to not be on it at all.
saga lout is correct. Employers DO check facebook and elsewhere. Know for a fact that clients have done it to me.
Use it to your advantage and say what a great company you have an upcoming interview with while mentioning how much you love your wife/husband and kids and only leave them to raise money for local charities.
[cite]Posted By: Leroy Ambrose[/cite]Correction - shows what morons are saying. Anyone who has their privacy settings allowing everyone to see everything they write is an absolute pilchard. Seriously - go through it by searching for pretty much anything. You'll see - pretty much every post is written by people with the IQ of a chicken nugget.
[cite]Posted By: Henry Irving[/cite]one client of mine found a private report I had written for another client on the net.
Luckily they were impressed. If spotty kids can hack the Pentagon then someone can access your FB page.
Ummm... Spotty kids don't 'hack' the pentagon. They chuck a remote admin tool on user machines because the IT security there is so shit that their firewall for some unknown reason allowed access to PCAnywhere on all user machines, some of whom didn't even bother to password protect them.
Don't believe anything you read/see about IT Security - 99% of it is bullshit.
[quote][cite]Posted By: Leroy Ambrose[/cite][quote][cite]Posted By: Henry Irving[/cite]one client of mine found a private report I had written for another client on the net.
Luckily they were impressed. If spotty kids can hack the Pentagon then someone can access your FB page.[/quote] Ummm... Spotty kids don't 'hack' the pentagon. They chuck a remote admin tool on user machines because the IT security there is so shit that their firewall for some unknown reason allowed access to PCAnywhere on all user machines, some of whom didn't even bother to password protect them.
Don't believe anything you read/see about IT Security - 99% of it is bullshit.[/quote]
All over my head by individuals did access pentagon computers.
FB is also said to have a number of weaknesses in its security too but I'm not an IT geek just a user : - )
[cite]Posted By: Leroy Ambrose[/cite]Correction - shows what morons are saying. Anyone who has their privacy settings allowing everyone to see everything they write is an absolute pilchard. Seriously - go through it by searching for pretty much anything. You'll see - pretty much every post is written by people with the IQ of a chicken nugget.
On the basis of this post, I checked for "chicken nugget" on Openbook.
"James Taylor Accidently ate a raw chicken nugget, yummy "
[cite]Posted By: Leroy Ambrose[/cite]Nitpicking at what?
When Henry (a non IT professional) said hacked, I knew what he meant. Simply that they gained access. You were just nitpicking when you needed to point out that they gained remote access because some of their PCanywhere programs weren't password protected, and that that is not 'technically' hacking.
Oh - I see. Furry muff. It just it is me when the media make password guessing out to be a 'hack'. You need skill to be a hacker. You don't need any skill to buy a commercial remote access tool, point it at government-owned IP addresses and enter 'password'.
[cite]Posted By: Leroy Ambrose[/cite]Correction - shows what morons are saying. Anyone who has their privacy settings allowing everyone to see everything they write is an absolute pilchard. Seriously - go through it by searching for pretty much anything. You'll see - pretty much every post is written by people with the IQ of a chicken nugget.
On the basis of this post, I checked for "chicken nugget" on Openbook.
"James Taylor Accidently ate a raw chicken nugget, yummy "
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not a user myself, what's the significance of the link?
not too bad mate, how's you and the family?
absolute rubbish in my opinion
Just seen this - Its a website that searches everyone's status updates on facebook who's privacy settings are set to public.
Basically shows what everyone is saying!
Based on what? I'm just relaying to you what I was told by a recruitment professional
That's exactly my point - I thought that if I didn't have a facebook presence that would be okay, but I was told by an expert in the field of recruitment that it's better to be on facebook to show yourself in a good light, rather than to not be on it at all.
Use it to your advantage and say what a great company you have an upcoming interview with while mentioning how much you love your wife/husband and kids and only leave them to raise money for local charities.
Luckily they were impressed. If spotty kids can hack the Pentagon then someone can access your FB page.
Not going to disagree with you at all there!!
if an employer hacked my facebook then im not sure i would wanna work for them!!
Don't believe anything you read/see about IT Security - 99% of it is bullshit.
Luckily they were impressed. If spotty kids can hack the Pentagon then someone can access your FB page.[/quote]
Ummm... Spotty kids don't 'hack' the pentagon. They chuck a remote admin tool on user machines because the IT security there is so shit that their firewall for some unknown reason allowed access to PCAnywhere on all user machines, some of whom didn't even bother to password protect them.
Don't believe anything you read/see about IT Security - 99% of it is bullshit.[/quote]
All over my head by individuals did access pentagon computers.
FB is also said to have a number of weaknesses in its security too but I'm not an IT geek just a user : - )
On the basis of this post, I checked for "chicken nugget" on Openbook.
"James Taylor Accidently ate a raw chicken nugget, yummy "
I think you might be right.
When Henry (a non IT professional) said hacked, I knew what he meant. Simply that they gained access. You were just nitpicking when you needed to point out that they gained remote access because some of their PCanywhere programs weren't password protected, and that that is not 'technically' hacking.
That's all I meant by nitpicking.
hahaha
m.facebook.com
its facebook mobile