Alli Rising- Response to "The Web Means the End of Forgetting"

Response to “The Web Means the End of Forgetting”

            In the article “The Web Means the End of Forgetting,” the author Jeffrey Rosen makes some excellent arguments throughout his writing. At the beginning of his article, he stats an example of what may happen if one posts pictures online that should not be seen by the online world. Within the article he gives many examples that have the same message which is to not post a picture or status online that you may regret. As Rosen gives the example in his opening about a girl named Stacy Snyder that posted a picture which was found by her school and then was unable to receive her teaching degree. She sued and argued that it was violating her First Amendment rights. Her claim was denied because she was a public employee and her photo didn’t relate to matters of public concern.  Rosen stats that more employers are starting to check Facebook or other social networks before they hire someone into their company or business.  According to a survey by Microsoft, 75 percent of U.S. recruiters and human-resource professionals report that their companies require them do to online research about candidates. With several more employers are starting to look at social networking, people may be able to have control over their online reputations. The control people can have over their profiles is setting their privacy settings to the highest settings that may be available to them. People are able to control their own profiles but are unable to control what others say about them or post on their own profiles. Stacy Snyder that was mentioned at the beginning of Rosen’s article said that she had deleted her MySpace. She was trying to maintain her privacy throughout the web but even though things may be deleting employers still have ways to finding things online.