Why Do Companies Use Social Media Stereotypes

Technology grows everyday. We see technological advancements everywhere throughout the world, whether it is a new phone being released, a new computer being invented, or a new scientific experiment used in the medical field. Technology is constantly expanding, and with this expansion, we must ask ourselves one question: do we rely too heavily on technology? When discussing technology, there are limits and fine lines between using and abusing these technologies that are at hand, but as we discover these limits and ask ourselves this question, we look at the generation of fresh adults in our local area who are entering college and the growth of social media within this generation. Undoubtedly, young Americans utilize social media everyday whether

Because adolescents are growing up with more access to social networking, texting and instant messaging on various sites have become prime means of communication. While this is not necessarily bad, many people feel the need to over-share things about their personal lives online. More and more people are using Facbeook and more and more employers are using Facebook to scope out potential employees. If there are inappropriate pictures and comments all over someone’s Facebook page, they are more likely to not receive the job. Some students get in trouble for things they post on Facebook and Twitter. Some users are beginning to notice this and have started deactivating their accounts to regain a sense of privacy. CNN’s article “The anti-social network: Life without Facebook”, states that some students who are trying to maintain a professional image for future employment are deleting their pages.

The rapid growth of technology in our society has become more dominant than it was in the 17th and 18th century. Today, technology is used for almost everything in our day to day lives. But the most common usage of technology is for communication and industrialization. However, every good thing has its disadvantage if it is over used, and since technology has become very dominant, it is used by both young and older people but more predominant among the youth of the today. Even more, technology has brought about social networking such as Facebook, Twitter, my space, piazza.com, instagram, tango, and last but not the least texting. According to socialnetworking.procon.org, “47% of American adults used social networking sites like

Digital natives are going to be young people, multitaskers, and quick learners that have technological skills. Digital Natives are making this new generation very different from the prior generations. These changes are forcing sociologist, parents, students, teachers, and lawmakers to change the way they do things. In Born Digital, Jon Palfrey and Urs Gasser describe how in an emerging digital world, it is easy to create online identities. With these online identities, we control different stages with a front stage or back stage. Online, digital natives are leaving digital cues or claims of self that sometimes couldn’t be farther from reality. Since the emergence of social media there is a blur between what is private or what is public. What we may feel is a private space could be viewed under a large and unknown amount of people. The Digital Natives are finding themselves not doing a good job managing their web information about them or their “digital dossier”, that is, the sum total of personally identifiable information, much of which can turn up in browsers searches. The line between reality and online presence is becoming so thin that digital natives are by no means a generation but we see that they are in fact a population.

There was a lot of items on my social media sights that I never thought of to be considered inappropriate, but after I thought about it they really were. They weren’t inappropriate in the sense that there was exposure or there were pictures of me drinking or smoking, but there were profane words that I found and also many other pictures or posts that I wouldn’t find appropriate for a teacher to have on her profile.

There are three important reasons to think that life has been exposed through a distorted electronic mirror; Facebook. According to my experience, social media has been the path that many teens and adults (myself) with ages ranging from 10 to 45 years old are using to expose their lifestyles and impressions that are not necessarily true to others. First, everybody is completely aware of the fact that it is not easy for others to make sure the information you post is veridic, therefore, posting an incorrect or a false statement becomes tempting. Second, it is a fact that nobody wants to share tragic stories about their lives in order to avoid any kind of pity from others. Finally, I have noticed that the more you lie on face book the more “likes” you get,

When I was in 7th grade I was jumped right after lunch time by three kids. They cornered me into the bathroom and each of them got a good piece of me. Yelling “terrorist”, “Sand N****”, and other profane words along while stomping me down and beating me to a pulp. The beating was roughly 3 minutes in real time but to me it felt like a horrendous tedious 3 hours. I was never handled like that ever and I would’ve never thought that something like that would ever happen to me in my lifetime, where I was living. I’ve brought that day along myself, October 13th 200* and I will never forget that. Before that incident I was harassed not as harshly but it came to my attention just about 3rd grade, I grew immune to their verbal attacks and I never had

Colleges and employers look through an applicants social media to see if they can find out about their attitudes. Some believe social media can't prove any attitudes, but it can show the attitude towards situations may being posted about whether it be positive or negative. If an applicant happens to post about the bad day they were having and speaks negatively then that shows the attitude they have when faced with it. For example, if the employee would happen to have a bad day at work and showed up, how do you think they would react and what would be the attitude they put out? However, posting positive and friendly things online shows that the applicant has a pretty positive attitude. For example, if an applicant posts that it is a “beautiful

Being hired to a big position job or any job for that matter, bosses tend to want the best workers to give them the highest profit in the company. When looking for employees for an important job, it can be a little tricky to pick the right candidate. Many times, people will post on social media things they do in their outside life or in other words their true self. Looking at employee’s social media is an easy way to find out more information besides what they put on their cover letter of a resume. When looking at social media accounts, not all the findings are negative some can relate to a great job offers. Companies should be able to have access to your social media account for reasons pertaining to information leaks, trust

We’ve gotten to the point where everybody is so scared of being called racist, sexist, homophobic, or anything else that describes being hateful towards a certain group. Sometimes people define such words, but a plethora of people get offended way too easily nowadays. I have a sinister outlook on most subjects. I don’t think that I go against any other topic more than political correctness. I say and do things that go against these correct morals almost every day. Feeling hatred towards my generation, I see most of us as children, whose highest achievement is our amount of idiocrasy. Maybe this is just my harsh outlook and attitude, being the cynical, callous person that I am.

Social media has been one involuntary way in which has somewhat taken a course and has become one way in which employees are being screened from their social media. A manager at a company may have concerns as to who they are hiring and may what to see more inside information about their employee. A manager has been given the ability to ask the potential employee for their username and password to their social media and pull up any information they can find. In article How Social Media Can Hurt Your Career, journalist, Rachel Zupek speaks on the negative impacts social media has on jobs and goes on to show some examples of what a worker should not do on social media. Zupek states that “[Technology is] also becoming the latest way for people to get job offers rescinded, reprimanded at work and even fired” (para

Stevie Nicks, a famous singer songwriter, once said “Little girls think it's necessary to put all their business on Myspace and Facebook, and I think it's a shame... I'm all about mystery.” A lot of people across the U.S. have a form of social media and can put any information they want out for the public to see. Once something is put on the internet anyone has access to it, and people are putting a lot of their personal information out there for others to see. A problem that has arisen from this is that employers are using social media to determine hires.

The controversy with companies accessing individual’s social networking sites centers around the infringement of the individual’s right to privacy, access to information that is protected by law. Human resource professionals, hiring recruiters, and employer’s use of social networking sites (SNSs) checks challenges how personal privacy dealt with and the potential discovery and use of discriminatory information. Social networking sites used in job searching and employee recruitment prove that SNSs are no longer being used just for socializing. Job seekers today still have to provide qualifications, their work, education and criminal history and a background check for security clearance. Some companies claim they need more information so they can find a better fit employee for their company. This new trend by companies to do social networking site background checks of potential and existing employees raises legal and moral issues for employers. The potential for discovery of information that is protected under Title VII of the federal Civil Rights Act to protect from discrimination by employers is very high. Job seekers and employees that belong to social

The average millennial spends 1,128 hours a year online, so it isn’t shocking that online history and behaviors are investigated when we are looking for long term employment. This issue is more prevalent to millennials and Gen-Z than any other generation before them. As Jeffery Rosen, law professor at George Washington University, writes, 75 percent of U.S recruiters and human-resource professionals report that their companies require them to do online research about candidates (Rosen 595). This means that 75 percent of companies will look at your public online information to determine if you are truly an asset they would want to hire. Adults who they would be checking today are much more mature with their online postings than a teenager today. However, in 10 years when that now 20-something is looking for a job and they are checked, all of those immature posts will come up. This is what makes this issue so much more prominent for the most recent generations. Accounts can be deleted, names can be changed, and privacy settings can be maximized, but one thing always stays constant. The internet never truly forgets.

In all, I feel that with the current economic state and the unemployment rates at where they are, the use of social media sites are the best thing for getting young people jobs that they are willing to do. The use of the sites must be monitored and controlled to ensure the safety and well being of the