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While it might be natural to boast to your buddies about how drunk you got at the Halloween party, you might want to keep the particulars of that drunken night of costume madness off of your Facebook profile, and be sure to advise your friends to keep you out of those published photo albums, because all it takes is one compromising image of you with that tipsy girl in the kittten costume to cost you your career.
While you might think it okay to spend a Saturday night partying it up, the company you work for has an image to maintain, and inappropriate shenanigans by their top salesman could damage sales and business reputations.
And even if your boss is okay with your social activities, your friends’ employers might not have the same attitudes, and those wacky drunken pictures could lead to a dismissal. After all, you’re sharing your private life on the Internet, you know that wide-open-to-everyone-in-the-world network thingy.
And let’s remember that business recruiters are very active in social networks, digging up dirt, and doing their due diligence when looking for suitable personnel to hire (or fire). Yes, they look for references, but there’s nothing more revealing than websites full of party stories, trysts, pranks, and stunts.
If you’re okay with the world hearing about every social situationn where you toss back a few beers, then by all means, fill your Facebook profile with drunken, blurred photos of you and your drinking buddies. But try and use some judgement when you decide to share questionable photos or stories of your other friends who might be more concerned about keeping their jobs.
