The Web Means the End of Forgetting - Response

"The Web Means the End of Forgetting", by Jeffery Rosen, is an article which deals with modern day risks of posting certain content online to sites such as social networking sites (e.g. Facebook, Twitter).  The jobs of people and their reputations are at stake with how far social networking has come.  Rosen provided very valid information by explaining a study about how 75 percent of U.S. recruiters and human-resource professionals report that their companies require them to do online research about candidates and applicants.  It means that any content posted online that is deemed as "inappropriate" behavior can cost them their chances of getting a job.  A perfect example is Stacy Snyder's "Drunken Pirate" photo, which was a Myspace photo that had gotten her terminated from her job as a student teacher.  Rosen uses many credible sources in the article such as citing the University of California, a Harvard Law School teacher and graduate, along with book writer, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger.  Rosen claims, "The internet is shackling us to everything that we have ever said, or that anyone has said about us..." along with, "...being so shackled by our digital past that we are unable to evolve and learn from our mistakes."  The statements made have an emotional impact, because being 'shackled' by mistakes or a reputation made online makes life seem as if it got much more difficult to cope with, due to easier exposure of things that were kept private in the past.  Overall, Jeffery Rosen's presentation given in his article is extremely logical and makes one look at how the online world has caused an unfortunate risk in the real world.  He explained how at one time in Babylonian Talmud, any form of gossip or tale-bearing was a sin.  Today, it is nothing but a mere "rumor".  Rosen was logical, added credible sources, and created a strong emotional impact in showing how the internet today can impact a person's life.