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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber
Along these lines please be careful what you post on FB or anywhere else on the internet. A determined person can find a lot of personal information using some carefully crafted searches. For example, I was trying to find a friend of mine's address (I had to pick them up but they had forgotten to give me their address) I knew the approximate area (zip code) and a name. These two pieces of information and 1 Google search gave me their address. Searching a name and a town will give you a lot of hits too. Heck, a search for my name returns a picture I didn't even know was taken as well as several news articles. Anyway, point being, be careful. I spent about 5 minutes and managed to find a pretty comprehensive list of my skills as well as about every scholarship I won to go to school (and my old cell phone number).
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Keep in mind that, in general, when you hit "submit" on any web site, it's findable forever. So don't go posting pictures of that wild party or whatever event you're at with the idea that you can delete them later and no one will ever know. You never know what will bite you in the butt later.
For example, there's a note on my Facebook account that pretty viciously attacks a school I attended. The note is the reason that I used the past tense, despite being intentionally hidden.
That being said,
this xkcd expresses my thoughts on the matter rather well. (Contains strong language) I generally don't like having to pretend I'm something I'm not just because some judgmental jerk will think, "When he was 14 years old, he didn't like his high school! How can we hire him 20 years later?". Especially because I consider myself a mostly responsible person and generally don't do stupid things. I guess that's the way things are, though, so I'll watch what I say.