Adjusting your web presense for the sake of (potential) employment

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I've started thinking lately, in light of an upcoming move and subsequent job search, about my web presense and the ways that it might affect said job search. I'm fairly certain that most places on the web that feature my real name are fairly benign (and might actually prove beneficial), but I can't help wondering if there's something I'm not thinking of. I know that people occasionally get fired over stuff like this, so I'm wracking my brain. Taking the explicit BDSM site down would be job one, of course.

In what ways have you adjusted your web presense to suit your employers? Any horror stories?

― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 8 January 2007 01:56 (nineteen years ago)

Um, why do you use your real name?

― Super Cub (Debito), Monday, 8 January 2007 02:10 (nineteen years ago)

i don't think that haircare is their real surname

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Monday, 8 January 2007 02:18 (nineteen years ago)

Haircare is a WELSH name, you twat!

― Super Cub (Debito), Monday, 8 January 2007 02:28 (nineteen years ago)

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/dreams.png

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 8 January 2007 02:30 (nineteen years ago)

those wacky welsh

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Monday, 8 January 2007 02:43 (nineteen years ago)

jerry maguire.jpeg

― hoo got it for steen, vol. 2 (Hoosteen), Monday, 8 January 2007 03:46 (nineteen years ago)

Thank you for the considered and insightful responses.

― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 8 January 2007 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

I really like that cartoon.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 8 January 2007 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

xkcd.com - it's great.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 8 January 2007 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

it make sense to do a quick check especially if you work in the kinda of trade where you might have a web presence...

― secondhandnews (secondhandnews), Monday, 8 January 2007 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

psuedonyms folx, psuedonyms. This is why I usually go by Samantha/Ms Misery online. when I started doing ilx/friendster/blogging etc I wanted to be able to speak candidly without work-types looking shit up.

― Ms Misery (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 8 January 2007 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

This thread just made me change my e-mail.

― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Monday, 8 January 2007 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

I had the Ugly American entry on Wikipedia scrubbed of my current real name because of such considerations. SELL OUT!

― Edward III (edward iii), Monday, 8 January 2007 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

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