Elizabeth Wurtzel, the author of Prozac Nation and Bitch, now attends Yale Law School, where she has learned to hate AutoAdmit, the online university blab shack. As with many online slanders, the ones on AutoAdmit tend to molder for a long time, which means that a newly minted lawyer may have to deal with an unseemly Google fingerprint (which, unlike this incriminating Google fingerprint, isn’t even self-generated).
Here is Wurtzel’s view, in the Wall Street Journal and here is a recent Washington Post piece on the subject.
Although she doesn’t say so in her Journal piece, Wurtzel’s disdain for AutoAdmit may come from personal experience.
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Seems like the folks who run AutoAdmit should get someone with half a brain in to prevent search engines from indexing their pages.
Having taken a quick turn through the current top few topics at AutoAdmit, though… Wow. What a pile of garbage!
Also, the juicy-sounding last link is broken…
Seems like the folks who run AutoAdmit should get someone with half a brain in to prevent search engines from indexing their pages.
Having taken a quick turn through the current top few topics at AutoAdmit, though… Wow. What a pile of garbage!
Also, the juicy-sounding last link is broken…
You linked to a WSJ/OpinionJournal article with an ad picturing … Steven Levitt … in their “Every Journey Needs a Journal” ad campaign. Clever.
From the article:
“The descriptions of them … were showing up on Google searches of their names, and had prevented at least one of them from securing employment.”
Why would a company or law firm let unsubstantiated online drivel influence their hiring decisions? They’re idiots? Or maybe their standard method of evaluating candidates is ineffectual. Or nonexistent.
You linked to a WSJ/OpinionJournal article with an ad picturing … Steven Levitt … in their “Every Journey Needs a Journal” ad campaign. Clever.
From the article:
“The descriptions of them … were showing up on Google searches of their names, and had prevented at least one of them from securing employment.”
Why would a company or law firm let unsubstantiated online drivel influence their hiring decisions? They’re idiots? Or maybe their standard method of evaluating candidates is ineffectual. Or nonexistent.
Is this entire post a ironic joke? We are supposed to take the word of Elizabeth Wurtzel that somehow living on the edge of cutural America might get you persona non grada in the corporate world. This is surely high irony.
Is this the same Elizabeth Wurtzel who supposedly “…did her exhaustive research and writing on a speedy Kerouacesque drug binge that, by her own admission, sent her to rehab upon the book’s conclusion.”
This modern day merry prankster who used outrageous and too general claims in her first book and whose second book was nothing but the equivalent of shouting “fire” in an empty theatre is not exactly the role model for reining in outrageous statements.
I’m not saying there is not a problem with Autoadmit and slander on the internet in general, but we need another hero to push the case forward.
Is this entire post a ironic joke? We are supposed to take the word of Elizabeth Wurtzel that somehow living on the edge of cutural America might get you persona non grada in the corporate world. This is surely high irony.
Is this the same Elizabeth Wurtzel who supposedly “…did her exhaustive research and writing on a speedy Kerouacesque drug binge that, by her own admission, sent her to rehab upon the book’s conclusion.”
This modern day merry prankster who used outrageous and too general claims in her first book and whose second book was nothing but the equivalent of shouting “fire” in an empty theatre is not exactly the role model for reining in outrageous statements.
I’m not saying there is not a problem with Autoadmit and slander on the internet in general, but we need another hero to push the case forward.
For such a religious country, there seems to be a lot of people spending a lot of time ignoring the ninth commandment “thou shall not bear false witness,” and ironically having the long shadow of the law to hide under.
There must be staggering amounts of time and effort wasted by people defending themselves against these types of attacks, which ironically can be made so quickly. Does this go on in other “civilized” countries as much as it does here?
For such a religious country, there seems to be a lot of people spending a lot of time ignoring the ninth commandment “thou shall not bear false witness,” and ironically having the long shadow of the law to hide under.
There must be staggering amounts of time and effort wasted by people defending themselves against these types of attacks, which ironically can be made so quickly. Does this go on in other “civilized” countries as much as it does here?