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Obama Using Internet Communications To Filter Potential Staff Members
If you are hoping to earn yourself a position with the new administration, you better hope that your Facebook profile is squeaky-clean, free from any potentially embarrassing or harmful posts, pictures, comments, or questionable friends, because Team Obama is screening applicants through Facebook, email, MSN, blogs, and personal websites in order to find qualified individuals for various positions.
President-Elect Barack Obama utilized the Internet heavily for his presidential campaign, and he is continuing to use Internet resources such as Facebook, Myspace, and others to help staff positions by screening out potentially harmful candidates through their public opinions, associations, and public profiles.
I can just imagine how much easier Senator McCarthy’s job would have been had be been able to access such valuable resources such as Facebook. Just think of how much time would have been saved in public enquiries, investigations, and interviews if his committee could view Facebook profiles and blacklist Americans remotely!
Hopefully Obama still believes in free speech and is not opposed to dissenting opinions, figures of speech, and out-of-context expressions, otherwise, social networking will soon become the doom for many qualified individuals whose only mistake might be a lack of discretion of judgement.
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