{"id":4291,"date":"2004-04-09T15:41:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-09T15:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/you-are-your-dating-references-2\/"},"modified":"2004-04-09T15:41:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-09T15:41:00","slug":"you-are-your-dating-references-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/you-are-your-dating-references-2\/","title":{"rendered":"You Are Your Dating References"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just read Seth Godin’s article at Fast Company, You Are Your References<\/a> where he talks about how on-line life and digital footprints affect how potential employers see their employees. Everything from comments on Amazon to rants at Epinions could be considered. I appreciate that the scope of his article was limited to employment, but I find that every word of it is true for potential dates as well.<\/p>\n

Because I believe in the golden rule, I don’t use names here or vent overmuch about previous relationships (if I do vent, it’s me venting at anonymous people). I’m a private person in the real world. Since I don’t relish the idea of my name and actions being immortalized on an ex’s blog, I don’t do it here. I live in the Google age. I know this.<\/p>\n

Still, I’m not quite out in the open about my web presence. I don’t make a practice of telling potential dates about my blog. The truth is, I probably wouldn’t date someone for long if they didn’t find my blog. The web is so integrated into my life, personal and private, that I don’t want to explain it to someone who doesn’t get that lifestyle. If you can’t hang on the ‘net, I don’t want to make out with you. There. I’ve said it.<\/p>\n

The other thing is, I’m not my blog and my blog is not me. It’s a slice of my life and that’s it. I don’t put everything out here. Heck, I don’t even put most things out here. If you read this blog and you date me (or want to), take this space with a heapin’ helpin’ of salt. <\/p>\n

Okay, back to Fast Company<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just read Seth Godin’s article at Fast Company, You Are Your References where he talks about how on-line life and digital footprints affect how potential employers see their employees. Everything from comments on Amazon to rants at Epinions could be considered. I appreciate that the scope of his article was limited to employment, but<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}