Jul
23
2008
Your application has been denied because a reference described you as a "silent but deadly farter"
Just got off the phone from catching up with an old friend who’s teaching a summer course to well-to-do high school students in New York. She said she recently attempted to teach her students about internet privacy, and they were baffled by the concept. First, they didn’t know that you could keep things private, perhaps because they don’t remember a time before the internet. But amazing to me is that they didn’t know why you might want to keep things private.
My friend then proceeded to cite a case where someone was turned down for a job because to Google her name brought up evidence that she was “a silent but deadly farter”.
To her teenage students, that got the point across.
