This HellJay thingie

[platedlizard]

With the latest Failbook idiocy on the part of LiveJournal I am going to be more fully switching over to my new main journal at Dream Width. I have already backed up my posts there, and once I figure out how to back up the comments to DW I will be deleting my posts on Live Journal. You will be able to find them there.

I will not be deleting my Live Journal account as I still wish to read my friends list and participate in my favorite communities. However I will no longer be posting in my journal.

It's a shame, but with Facebook's past history of security problems and Live Journal's past history of repeatedly making bonehead mistakes I no longer feel safe to post personal information on this site. I've been here seven years, and it kinda sucks.

Edit: the comments were already uploaded. So the deletings will commence!

Comments

[tetradecimal]

being told by a prospective employer that they weren't going to hire her because she didn't have enough of a online presence, meaning they thought she was hiding something (and as a yaoi writer she was). People expect to be able to find you online now, and that's pretty frightening to me.

I must have missed the part where it became mandatory to allow prospective employers to rifle through your underdrawers and try on your bra before they hire you. Shaking down search engines and websites for signs of online information about you used to be something optional (although imo, a blatant disregard of privacy).

[platedlizard]

I don't think every employer is at that level yet. But I can see it coming in the next ten years. Maybe I'm just being pessimistic.

[tetradecimal]

Dear Congress,

Legislation plz~~

I'm sure it's only the asshole employers that are doing it now (or the ones with really public-facing jobs), but.