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Warning for teachers and other professionals...

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RokofAges75:

--- Quote from: julilly on April 15, 2008, 08:36:25 PM ---In 2004 I lost my job because of something I had posted on LJ. It wasn't even a matter of someone finding me but my boss came across the LJ of a colleague and when he was checking out her friends list my most recent post came up.

I now never post anything that isn't friends only.

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Wow... that is just scary.  It doesn't seem fair, but at least in the case of teachers, it makes sense.  If students would ever come across something inappropriate connected to you online, you'd have no chance of them still respecting you, and it's hard to manage a class that doesn't respect you.

MellzBellz:
When I was student teaching we all got read the riot act about My Space because like two student teachers got kicked out of the program for innapropriate content on their My Space profile. Apparently a parent came across it. I've since set mine to private. It's kind of scary when 3rd and 4th graders in my district have My Spaces now. (Illegally of course but they have them) Not that I have anything bad on mine. I hardly use it. But there are some pictures of me taken while I was at a bar with a drink in my hand, so that's not exactly something I want my students to see. I also just quite frankly don't want them to be able to glimpse into my personal life like that. I think its innapropriate.

As far as the fan fiction goes, I've googled myself a while back and actually found some stories *grimaces* Old ones from like Bauhaus or something. I have since removed them. As someone pointed out, I don't think many of my students are reading BSB fan fic anyway and the only person who really calls me Mellz Bellz is my sister. So, I think I'm pretty safe. I try not to advertise to many people where exactly I teach either. If I was to write a novel though down the road, I think I'd use a pen name just so that it couldn't be tied back to me and impact my teaching career.

RokofAges75:
^ It is frightening how many 9-year-olds have MySpaces!  One of my kids asked if she could get on MySpace at school once, so out of curiosity, I looked up some of my kids on there, and I was SHOCKED at how many of them I found.  Almost all of them had private profiles at least, but a lot of them used their first and last name as their username!!  Dumb!!!  Where are the parents??

MonkeyAbu:
Either I'm not important, or I've never done anything wrong, but I've googled myself and I can't find me... :-\

julilly:

--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on April 16, 2008, 05:29:20 PM ---Wow... that is just scary.  It doesn't seem fair, but at least in the case of teachers, it makes sense.  If students would ever come across something inappropriate connected to you online, you'd have no chance of them still respecting you, and it's hard to manage a class that doesn't respect you.

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I was a talk radio producer... so the public had no respect for me anyway

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