Should we add a social media search to our background checks?


The caption under this photo read “Watching You Watching Me”

Remember the post I did a couple of days ago about reputation? [click here if you missed it]

I think, as many potential employers are doing, we should design a system that would scan the social media sights for potential “red flag” behaviors of potential apartment residents.

We could design an algorithm based a variety of appropriately weighted derivatives targeted at identifying and assigning a R(Q) reputation quotient to each prospect. That could then be introduce to our various credit and criminal background models.

The algorithm would search for an number of otherwise apartment unfriendly behaviors. It would seek out blog posts, facebook smack talk, and Myspace friendly talk amongst other things.

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