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[starbeamz]

Rose, I agree on the part about Justin and Nick but, for whatever reason, the Jonas Brothers just seem way younger than those two did back in '97. *shrugs* I guess it's their time now...

And, to not hijack this thread further, reading Julie's original post totally made me go back and check everywhere that I've used starbeamz2...u nfortunately, in EVERYTHING. Luckily, I've never used my last name anywhere but on facebook and that's a hyper, super secret profile...or as secretive as a facebook profile can get

[Rose]

It goes in circles I guess. I'm still in shock NKOTB are back on the scene lol.

[nicksgal]

You know, I think nicksgal is a pretty safe handle. lol

But yeah, my Facebook is totally private because I don't want my unfortunatenes s found out. I even detag pictures I don't support. lmao

[julilly]

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.

[Kagoma]

How many Kagoma do people know? Plus I have three online names just in case for different sites. If you used your name as a screen name, then your a pretty brave person.

[RokofAges75]

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.

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]

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.

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

[RokofAges75]

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

Aww LOL.

[nicksgal]

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

I respect you.

[nicksgal]

I just googled my name out of curiosity. I already knew this, but there was an actress with my same name. So when you google my name, she's the one that comes up, not me.

[rebellious_one]

Wow... I wonder if that implies PPT's. I'm still in my teens, and I have a myspace and post stuff on there... well, nothing explicit of course, but now it makes me wonder if I have to be careful with who I befriend and all that jazz. I actually never really did think about that until this was mentioned. I definitely wouldn't want to lose my job over stuff about myspace or whatever. And as for the fanfic writing... I'm completely anonymous here, and I like to stay that way. Personal info is meant to be kept personal... and it's fun to kinda be myself, but kinda not be myself if that makes any sense, lol. I like remaining "mysterious" on forums and whatnot, but at the same time, just chat normally like I do. Thanks for the heads up Mare!!

[starbeamz]

I looked up my name, and, apparently, I'm a really "sexy" model. I even have my own website lol Although, I'm a little on the really skinny side, and I should probably eat more because those pics make me look like Skeletor

Actually, there was one thing that popped up that really was me, and that had to do with me being on the School Board for my old school district. I think I'm good