My view of the world

The news has finally picked up on the fact that recruiters for large corporations and even some admissions offices at major universities are checking online sites like myspace, xanga and facebook. Recruiters say that what is said, or shown on these sites gives them an insite into the type of person they are thinking about hiring.
After reading a bit of the article in the NY Times, I looked over a couple of these services. I just browsed, with nobody in particular in mind, and found everything from the mildly bizarre to the sickenly sweet, with a majority referring to booze, drugs and sex.
Since most recruiters are corporate “suits,” the more interseting of these people would probably freak them out.

While roaming aimlessly, I found a picture of a girl on the toilet (nothing showed), a large number of folks who seemed obsessed with their own butts, about a hundred sets of obviously plastic tits, a bunch of bikinis from the “two bandaids and a cork” school of design and this old poem.

Sticks and stones may break my bones
But whips and chains excite me
So tie me down
To the ground
And show how much you like me

The guys all seemed to be trying to prove that they could guzzle a bottle of 151 and not get a hangover, and they were all “God’s gift to women,” thereby proving, that God has a sense of humor.

I think that most of this is just “bar talk,” but the “suits” will undoubtedly take it seriously.
The moral of the story is:
If you’re looking for work in a large corporation and you have a profile with one of these services, clean it up. The staighter, more group oriented you look, the more likely you are to be interviewed and possibly hired.
I don’t care how much of a freak you are and how proud of it you may be, remember, with big outfits, they’re looking for fairly bright lemmings, so Boring is Better.