If you advice high school students to go an Quora, I would add recommendation about thinking about what the student writes. Quora is very public and depending on the career that the students wants to persue later, there might be content that a student shouldn’t post on Quora.
The fact that Quora makes sure that your people who are linked with you are also on Quora get to know what you write can make it more relevant for your life than a forum like Lesswrong.
When it comes to pick handles or nicknames I would add that numbers should not appear in them.
John123 does not look professional. In my days of forum moderation numbers in a nickname correlated with the person writting a post being a spammer.
There are plenty of cases where it’s reasonable to say: I have a friend who did X and then Y happens. Technically that violates the standard of not giving out information about real life friends.
In those cases it’s important to ask yourself two questions: (A) Would the friend be okay with me sharing this story? (B) Is all the information I share relevant for the point I’m making? Can I share less information about the identity of the friend and still keep the story in tact?
At my last NLP seminar I interact with a journalist. The journalist afterwards described me as someone who studies natural sciences. That’s broad enough that I’m not identifiable. If she would have written someone who studies bioinformatics that would have made it easier to identify myself.
When registering for an anomymous forum account, don’t use a email address that’s linked to your real identity. When trying to find out who someone happens to be in forum moderation I frequently did simply put the email address into the facebook search and got the real identity of people who thought they were fairly anonymous.
If the annonymity is important to you, don’t share the city in which you are living.
I’m personal a person who purposefully made a decision to put out information that might make a conservative employeer reject myself. I’m living in a mental sphere where I don’t really think about whether I might offend someone.
I think most high schoolers have a poor idea of what constitutes online behavior that might offend a person who makes hiring decisions. It might be worthwhile to interview a few people who make hiring decisions at more conservative companies to get their standards and explain those standards in a practical way to high school students.
If you advice high school students to go an Quora, I would add recommendation about thinking about what the student writes. Quora is very public and depending on the career that the students wants to persue later, there might be content that a student shouldn’t post on Quora.
The fact that Quora makes sure that your people who are linked with you are also on Quora get to know what you write can make it more relevant for your life than a forum like Lesswrong.
Thanks, this is an important point.
We have written up some general recommendations on maintaining one’s online presence here. Do you have thoughts on the advice presented there?
When it comes to pick handles or nicknames I would add that numbers should not appear in them. John123 does not look professional. In my days of forum moderation numbers in a nickname correlated with the person writting a post being a spammer.
There are plenty of cases where it’s reasonable to say: I have a friend who did X and then Y happens. Technically that violates the standard of not giving out information about real life friends.
In those cases it’s important to ask yourself two questions: (A) Would the friend be okay with me sharing this story? (B) Is all the information I share relevant for the point I’m making? Can I share less information about the identity of the friend and still keep the story in tact?
At my last NLP seminar I interact with a journalist. The journalist afterwards described me as someone who studies natural sciences. That’s broad enough that I’m not identifiable. If she would have written someone who studies bioinformatics that would have made it easier to identify myself.
When registering for an anomymous forum account, don’t use a email address that’s linked to your real identity. When trying to find out who someone happens to be in forum moderation I frequently did simply put the email address into the facebook search and got the real identity of people who thought they were fairly anonymous.
If the annonymity is important to you, don’t share the city in which you are living.
I’m personal a person who purposefully made a decision to put out information that might make a conservative employeer reject myself. I’m living in a mental sphere where I don’t really think about whether I might offend someone.
I think most high schoolers have a poor idea of what constitutes online behavior that might offend a person who makes hiring decisions. It might be worthwhile to interview a few people who make hiring decisions at more conservative companies to get their standards and explain those standards in a practical way to high school students.