Facebook was big when I was in school, but no where near the popularity of what it is now. A year ago I spent a couple months in Mankato with my brother, and it was like all anyone did. Get wasted on shots and beer bongs? Put photos of it on FB. Dress as a slutty nurse for Halloween? It's on FB November 1st. I don't think these kids realize that recruiters and HR professionals look into these things when they interview candidates. They think that because their profile is set to private that the photos might as well be locked in a top secret vault. My old man is a Superintendent and he laughs when I've asked him if potential teachers are crossed off the list because of compromising FB profiles. "All the time" he says.
These are guys that are auditioning for jobs worth millions and they're running the risk of being taken off a draft board.
Rick Speilman wrote:Rick Spielman remembers one Myspace page, the kind that makes a personnel man sit up in his seat, reach for a pencil, and push a particular question to the top of his list. He refuses to divulge the name of the player involved, but concedes that the Minnesota Vikings ran into the profile “a year or two ago.” One that the Vikings looked at very closely at the league’s annual scouting combine in Indianapolis, then grilled privately over some of the things he had posted on his networking profile.
“He had a big picture of a bunch of drug money and drugs on a carpet,” the Vikings’ vice president of player personnel said, shaking his head. “It was the kind of thing that, you know, it was under his name. So when we had some time with him, of course we were like ‘What is this all about?’ … It was an interesting conversation. He had a legitimate explanation for what happened and we followed up on it and we believe it was what he said it was. But that’s one of the things that happens [with networking profiles].”
I remember that. It was Brandon Flowers.
