Nick Carr relates some advice from Dave Sifry, which was directed at aspiring politicians. It fits for anyone though. My stupid college hijinks are invisible unless I decide to tell the stories; the generation passing through school now is leaving a much bigger crumb trail:

According to the FT, Sifry cautioned the attendees that "some Web 2.0 tools could backfire on the next generation of Davos delegates, warning that the Supreme Court justices and presidential candidates of 20-30 years time could be embarrassed by their juvenile MySpace pages and drunken photos on Facebook."

"Googling" job aspirants is fairly standard now - it will be interesting to watch the reactions of interviewing staff as they turn up records of lost weekends (and worse). Will they be forgiving, with an "everyone did that" attitude, or are people actually building up that "permanent record" that our high school teachers warned us about?

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