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Originally Posted by vivaldirules
The creative people who paint or sculpt or write novels can make something that others can see long after it was created. But the creative people who type in a little window on their PC and post on a web forum are like sand painters. In a matter of hours it is out of sight as the thread scrolls to a new page and is effectively lost forever to the four winds. We have some profoundly creative posters here and it often makes me sad that almost no one sees their craft.
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There are 50,000+ users on MR, and the posts are stored in a database, so they aren't gone, merely forgotten. and they're seen by more than you might think.
That's the double edged sword of the Internet. Very few things are ever really gone. There's a lovely cartoon of a candidate being interviewed, with the caption "Joe thought he'd aced the interview, till he was interrupted by the Ghost of Usenet postings past..."
Too true, as HR folks technically aren't
supposed to look for your traces on the Internet, but all do.
I'm astonished by some of the stuff people post to the world on Facebook. If
I did some of those things, I'd be at pains to keep it secret...
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Dennis