Hence why, up until a few days ago, i locked my twitter updates and kept my blog professional but my facebook for personal use.

It’s a fine line between giving away aspects of your personality and remembering that the whole world is watching you and that anything you commit to the online world is pretty much permanent…

Now, however, i’m taking the approach of ‘take me or leave me’.

I’m not going to be outlandish and swear etc on my Twitter or Blog but i will bare my personality and new job prospects will either love me or hate me.

Also, what he doesn’t understand is the magnitude of what he’s asking me to do. Deleting a website account to him is equal to deleting an email. I will be losing a large part of my life. I have made friends on Twitter. I have also made valuable contacts.

Just for my 2 cents, I personally don’t worry about the impact of my personal contribution to this beast we call the interwebs affecting my work life for 2 reasons:

1) I work in digital media, everyone has an online presence, it is expected.

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2) I wouldn’t want to work anywhere that would not allow me to express my opinions online. I do not pretend to represent the views of any employer (except in articles I write on their behalf of course) and I am not spouting racial hatred or condoning the behaviour of serial killers. What I write is in no way offensive enough to justify someone not employing me.

In conclusion if my online persona were to cost me a job I wouldn’t change the online persona, I’d sacrifice the job.

However, everyone’s situation is different and I can see how some people would not have the same flex-abilities nor the same viewpoint as I would.