Unintended online resumes

Be careful of what you publish on your MySpace, Facebook, or Friendster account... a potential employer might just be checking up on you, according to this Times article, which cites a trend of employers checking out applicants' social network pages.

It's easy for online users to forget that they're in a public place when they post personal information meant for family and friends. (And many don't know that even pages that are cited as "restricted" to friends and fellow students aren't necessarily "private")

In general, it's a good idea for anything posted online that might be Googled under your name or otherwise might track back to you -- email, blogs, web sites, social software applications, etc. -- to be treated as public and kept SFW (safe for work).