Fake Job Postings

I read "It Isn't Always a Job behind an Online Job Posting" from the WSJ at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123483686491196353.html.

The article is about how some online job postings have turned out to be an advertisement for career-marketing service or even worse a scheme to steal identities. The recruiting agencies such as CareerBuilder attempt to sift through the job postings and verify that a job really exists. Sometimes they don't find all of them so be careful when using these sites and look for postings with more specifics and beware of those who ask for personal information such as social security numbers and bank accounts.

This makes me nervous because I have created an account on Monster. I have received several emails soliciting jobs to me because they think I would be a good fit. Most of them have been financial companies and I have emailed them to respectfully decline but I did receive and email from what I believe was a career marketing service and when I emailed them back to decline they sent me a pushy email attempting to get me to fill out my personal information for their database. This made me very weary of keeping my information on Monster but if I receive many more solicitation emails I may reconsider keeping my information available.

Google helps you keep track of friends

In CNN's article Google latitude keeps tabs on frends' locations (here: http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/02/04/google.latitude/index.html) Google basicly used their Google Maps that they have already created, and added location tracking tools. The latitude software is part of Google Maps and would work on iGoogle, Google Maps for Mobile (basically most smartphones) and possibly iPhone and iTouch users soon. The software not only uses GPS satelites but also proximity to cell phone towers in order to get a correct location on the user's whereabouts. This is a feature that you would have to sign up for as well as confirm who can see your location.

This sounds exactly like what iPhone already features so I don't know why thier users would be interesed in this application, and to me this is just CREEPY!!! What are you going to do when your boyfriend or girlfriend asks to confirm you so they can see where you are? It just puts everyone in an awkward situation when you break up. You already have to break up with them on facebook but now you probably also want to block them from seeing where you are. I feel like it's just asking for stalkers. Maybe it's just me, but I'm not that insecure that I need to know where my friends are at every second of the day. Oh no, they are at the bar without me...it's the end of the world. I don't know, it's just not for me.