Comments on: Outside the Generational Box – Strategies for Transition

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By: David

David — Sun, 18 May 2008 21:21:00 +0000

I agree with Rob that “Hair” is probably not a good example. It premiered during the midst of the Boomer years, and was a popularization of what the boomers, really the Hippy portion of the Boomers, were about.
Keeping yourself “clean” on line, I agree, will come to be a full time effort, with the social sites now allowing others to post information about you without your knowledge or moderation. Cleaning up one’s on line presence is now the order of the day.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:55:12 +0000

No offense, but Generation X (and Generation Y and the Millennials) DON’T remember Hair. Isn’t that part of the point?
Some more thoughts:
- Personal vs. Professional networking: I find the line between the two of them to be very fine. I try to keep them separate, but it’s harder and harder. I think this has something to do with my generation’s desire to be friends with the people they work with and to enjoy the workplace (I’m 26) – if we want to be friends with our co-workers, it is hard to separate personal and professional networking.
- LinkedIn – it’s achieved critical mass to be an effective online Rolodex, yes. And it’s not as intrusive as others (like Plaxo) that spam your contact list on your behalf. Not cool.
- Facebook – the truth of Facebook, LinkedIn and the web in general is that we all have to be conscious that anything we say/do can be captured (photo/video/quote) and put online. If you aren’t comfortable with that, then good luck – there’s not much you can do other than have zero online presence (not a good self-marketing strategy). IMHO, the best defense is a good offense – in order to keep people seeing what you want them to see, do a lot of positive things and do them in the public sphere. There’s a whole industry popping up now (you blogged about this before) of online identity fighters/cleaners. Waste of money…just be yourself online and publicly, and Google should reflect that.