Data lives Forever
It's sometimes difficult getting kids to understand the full implications of something as seemingly harmless as putting their photo online. They often don't realise that, just like The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins , once something goes online it is near impossible to remove it. This video makes a pretty good point of showing the effect of this behaviour... [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/iwBz-hxjSLU" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] It's something that both children and adults need to understand well. This is a post-Google world we live in. It's no longer unusual that an employer Googles the name of a potential hire to check their reputation and see what they have done (or equally, not done). When you go out with a new person, it's likely that your date has Googled you, MySpaced you or FaceBooked you to get a little bit of "background" on the sort of person you are. In a digita...