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Background Check

October 5, 2005 at 10:35 am | In Thing in Life that make you go hmm | Leave a Comment

Can you believe the things that can be found on the internet? I was riding in my car the other day when this talk show person was interviewing a gentleman who’s subject was background checks on people.

He proceeded to tell us about several sites that know a hell of a lot of information about us that we may not realize that is out there for the public to view. I thought oh yea sure. 

Well sure enough when I got to my computer I decided to take him up on his advise and type a few choice words into one of the search engines. OMG was I supprised!

Don’t ever think that on that one evening when you are feeling lonely that the info that  you might have typed to someone or that site that you joined for free just so that you could check out what it looked like won’t come up on search checks.

I am like everyone else when the internet was new and couldn’t wait to run home each night and see what new thing I could find to look at. After all aren’t we told that the internet is as diverse as our mind can think? I was. So I began to brouse all those sites that maybe I shouldn’t have. Yes I got an eye full but now the entire world can see what I was doing.

 Just a word of advise. When you are alone on that quiet night and are looking for someone to chat with BE VERY CAREFUL it might not be worth an evening of fun, later when you are looking to find a job.

Employers these days use search engines to check out what kind of people they are considering hiring. Do you really want them to see all your information?