Digital Footprint

The videos we watched talked a lot about how once you put something on your computer or the internet, it's there forever. Since I grew up in a family of computer nerds, this wasn't new knowledge to me. However, it is something that always seems to make me think twice when I go online. Something that is really concerning to me is the new Facebook timeline. Will colleges and employers be able to go back to pictures I have from say Jr High? Will they see pictures of my friends and I sticking out our tongues or drawing fake tattoos on ourselves? Although people say that your history may come back to haunt you, I think they often forget that they were once young as well. The generation that raised my generation did not have the access that I do to document their every adventure and have it become public to the world. So I suppose the question is how detailed are people going to be when they search for information on a potential employee? How will they interpret things that were posted three years ago? I think that this kind of research on people is more harmful than helpful. To me it says that people have no trust, and they no longer have a reason to even lie and say they do.